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...allowing “War and Politics” to count for ROTC credit as well as Harvard credit, the move will also eliminate a need—during at least one semester—for cadets to take their ROTC requirements as an extra class, Kuconis said...
...there's a little something we like to call abject stupidity when someone refuses to take even the slightest bit of responsibility for their own actions - or, for that matter, refuses to walk the extra three feet and read the nutrition information posted on the wall of almost every fast-food restaurant. I'm sorry Mr. Barber isn't well, but when you've had multiple heart attacks, and you continue to eat Biggie Fries for lunch, you've either got a serious lack of IQ points and probably shouldn't be allowed to wander the streets alone...
...small jolts of it during high school, I look at the beginning of college as my middle school, condensed into a few months. The first few weeks of my first year were nerve-racking. I wondered whether it was really okay for me to see boys without taking extra care to make myself look good. I had trouble identifying flirtatious behavior. In my case, arriving at college was perhaps similar to finding oneself in a newly developing body during middle school...
...rations," he grumbles. The models argue that they work hard for their money, go through an audition process like everyone else, and shouldn't be held responsible for the shortcomings of others. On a set, the two groups break down along class lines. Rosy, a pretty 26-year-old extra, looks jealously at the models. One of them is smoking, another is chatting on her mobile phone. "They are here just to have fun," Rosy says bitterly. "They want money to blow in discos. I need to pay bills...
...Look at those girls," hisses Vishnu, another extra. "How is Rosy any different from them?" Junior artists are graded during their selection. Some, who can pass as upper class, are called "Decent." The rest are called "B Grade." Rosy is "Decent," and therefore feels that non-union models are taking her jobs. "They are prostitutes," declares another of Rosy's friends. "These so-called models are given preference because they sleep with the producers and the agents...