Word: fingered
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...campus politics to your detriment," one professor warned in her written comments on my paper, the warning as prominent as the grade. Then the threats became explicit. If my colleagues and I didn't stop our union drive for graduate-student teachers, one professor informed me, jabbing her finger at me furiously, she would ensure that none of us ever taught. Some of my fellow graduate students received more than threats; the dean's letter of recommendation for a woman applying for professorships explained that her union activity made her a risky candidate. In the increasingly shrinking job market...
...certain deficits in modern child rearing that aren't so obvious the rest of the year, when we're sharing pizza by the slice and eating burgers out of the bag. "What is this strange, many-pronged stabbing instrument?" our kids inquire at the holiday table, examining their forks. Finger bowls, napkin rings and the other trappings of formal dining are as mysterious to them as the relics of forgotten religions...
...single standard for them. They also say handling the ballots "spoliates" them, a lawyerly way of saying counters can push chads through accidentally. Bush lawyer Phil Beck wanted Lewis to rule that only a chad with a stylus imprint could count, not one pushed through, say, by a finger. Lewis dismissed that request for now, but in the end his decision may not matter...
...episodes (Lisa is terribly depressed at the thought of going to Brown), and more directly, the characters on the show potentially walk amongst us. I can't sit through an hour of "Justice" without thinking, "Is Montgomery Burns modeled after Professor Michael Sandel? Yes--look--he's doing the finger thing." I am not the only student asking myself this question. In a straw poll of a "Justice" class this year about 85 percent of the students voted "The Simpsons" a higher form of pleasure than Shakespeare. One of my roommates claims that the Simpsons is one of two things...
Sasso passed around a handful of ballot cards--"not from Florida," he assured. Using a paper clip--the same he said was sent in the mail to absentee voters using punch cards--he urged his audience to vote. "Look at them, hold them up," he said, running his finger along the crisp side. "Do you see light...