Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laboring under the misapprehension that what makes Harvard sospecial is a combination of acedemic excellence, noted faculty, high caliber students and great libraries you are sooo wrong. You are paying $7500 to go to this glorified landgrant college because it is the oldest college in the country; you are paying for, in the words of Tevye, the Milkman, TRADITION...
...leave Mem Hall and re-enter the Yard we soon come upon the famous statue of John Harvard. This is often referred to as the statue of the Three Lies. The statue is not of John Harvard, the date is wrong and he is not the true founder of Harvard College...
...objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government," instead of the more value-laden "regime," hasn't he silently confirmed the status quo and denied the good guys their say? Isn't objectivity just hypocrisy, and the refusal to take sides against what is wrong an even greater crime...
...emotions were so high that even Brautbar's female lab technicians burst into tears when he announced that two babies were indeed in the wrong homes. The scientific Solomon patiently explained the tests to the mothers with color charts, but they remained distraught. Said one: "I know you are logically right, but if I talk to you from the bottom of my heart, it's difficult for me to accept what you say." Added the mother of the twins: "It sounds so easy going through a change, but only a mother knows the meaning of such a thing...
...work in a reference to Christina Onassis. There was a second's hesitation while two very fast computers scanned the possibilities, and Monty started muttering, "He who hesitates laughs last," in a thick Russian accent. "No, no," Suzanne, as Christina Onassis, gently explained, he had it wrong-but never mind: "I can buy you the best course Berlitz has to offer." "Have we been to Berlitz?" Monty, playing Christina's latest husband, Sergei Kauzov, asks plaintively. "No, that's Berlin," she answers...