Word: whims
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...doesn’t have a sweater collection, he’s not really a radical, and the “turn down the heat!” e-mail he sent to Yard Ops and all of Greenough was more of a whim than a detailed proposal. But that doesn’t mean that Henry Cowles ’08 isn’t dedicated to energy conservation—and proving just how well he can withstand the Cambridge cold...
...interest of not forgetting the songs they’d written, the band entered an on-campus studio in the middle of finals period to lay down a primitive demo. On a whim they submitted said demo to local nightclubs...
...mentality as they go around introducing themselves, putting up posters and handing out candy. Candidates also make far-fetched promises about what they’ll do if they win. For example, I was told that with my vote, Annenberg would stay open later, as if the whim of a first-year representative could get dining services to renegotiate its employee contracts...
...Lakshya (which roughly translates as "aim" or "focus") follows an urban slacker (Hrithik Roshan) who joins the Indian army on a whim and winds up finding heroic purpose fighting Pakistani troops who crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1999. The tragic context of a conflict that has cost up to 70,000 lives offers ample opportunity for that staple of Bollywood film: copious melodrama. Akhtar isn't so radical as to depart from such essential ingredients of the genre: song and dance, boy meets girl, and plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first...
...times, Slavitt sounds like he is pursuing political office on a whim...