Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...imagine the waves swelling really high, but you just broke your board yesterday on some crunchy rocks. Bro, that bummed.But last weekend was different. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets galore: Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Wake Forest, all going down.But for me, only three games mattered. Let’s approach from a communitarian perspective (big-ups to my man Michael Sandel, I know you’re reading this column, and I just want to say, you’re so enlightened, and stuff, like...
...weekend as they awoke Saturday to the sound of a male intruder robbing their room. The thief was stealing what amounted to be the third laptop that was snatched from Quincy students in the past week. One victim of the theft, Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, described waking up to find a man going through her purse. The culprit offered her a story about how he was a neighbor who was looking for a quarter so that he could call the American Automobile Association. “It was just so scary,” Benowitz said...
...homophobic people. McCain is certainly not the honorable man he claims to be if that is how he intends to win this election. If ignoring people who suffer at the hands of injustice is part of the American Dream the Republicans want to bring back, then they need to wake up, because America is about freedom. It's not about everybody's being just like you. Lisa Toms, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
Both sides have shown an affinity for such dark arts. For months, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates have been blanketing swing states with direct mail promoting Obama and attacking McCain for his "$520 Italian loafers." A union group called Wake Up Wal-Mart is running ads in swing states condemning McCain's "Bush-style corporate tax breaks," while the liberal group Catholics United has an ad saying McCain does not "defend all human life" because, among other issues, he supported the war in Iraq...
...viewers, this particular moment is one too many. As a screenwriter, Gregg doesn’t seem to have any thematic aspirations, except for what appears to be a slavish devotion to Palahniuk’s zero-sum social nihilism and the narcissistic sexual gluttony that hastens in its wake. Whether it’s Gregg’s unsuccessful adaptation of the novel or the book’s basic incompatibility with the screen, many bits of dialogue seem more unimportant than stupid—but not by much. Rockwell plays Victor, a 30-something sex addict who divides...