Word: wildes
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...April 28) that anyone associated with Harvard could or would take any smug, jealous satisfaction in the downfall of Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan caused by her apparent plagiarism in her recently released “chick-lit” novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” Nor is there any xenophobia at work here. Anyone associated with Harvard must be appalled that Harvard’s name came to be associated first with an insubstantial work of chick-literature. Although I am not a Harvard College graduate...
...with a looping single to left field and moved to third on a one-out double by catcher Justin Roth. Then, sophomore Matt Vance grounded softly to shortstop, but Arman Sidhu threw the ball away, allowing both runner to score and Vance to advance to second. A strikeout, a wild pitch, and a walk to Josh Klimkiewicz set up Wilson’s crowning blast. Jason Brown, after a leadoff infield single, retired the heart of the NU lineup in order in the bottom of the inning to earn the save, his fourth of the year. On a day when...
...wild card in the situation is Iran. The U.S. has long accused Iran of helping to destabilize Iraq, and the timing of its military foray into Iraqi territory is significant. Just as Iran faces international isolation over its nuclear enrichtment program and talk of possible U.S. military action in Iran is running high in Washington, the attack appears to be a calculated warning to the U.S. that however bad things are now in Iraq, they could get even worse. And as has so often happened in their tragic history, the Kurds could be the first, though certainly not the only...
...accusations, will not be re-released, and the sophomore’s two-book deal has been cancelled, her publisher said yesterday in a statement.“Little, Brown and Company will not be publishing a revised edition of ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life’ by Kaavya Viswanathan, nor will we publish the second book under contract,” said Little, Brown’s publisher Michael Pietsch ’78. Viswanathan admitted last week that she borrowed language from two of Megan F. McCafferty?...
...their distinguishing feature, it seems, is their ability to wear linen at inappropriate times.For those who do not know, linen is a summer fabric. But these TFs wear a black linen skirt with a gray linen tunic in the middle of January. In order to make up for the wild impracticality of all this, they then decide to pair the ensemble with clogs. If I didn’t know these women were 27-year-old grad students with an abiding interest the lesser-known works of George Eliot, I would think they were 70-year-old migrant workers...