Word: fittingness
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Take taxes. When the President proposed his tax increase on the rich, he did not just present it as a necessary measure for reducing the deficit. He presented it as just desserts -- fitting retribution -- for those who had made it in the '80s. Clinton would avenge the little guy on...
It seems particularly fitting that Ingmar Bergman should have been born on July 14, for the Swedish director has always been something of a revolutionary. While Sweden's film industry had made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like...
And then he tallied the game-clincher, which came just over three minutes after Dan Dufresne's first goal of the year had pulled Cornell within 4-3. Fitting that he scored from his knees, for Martins' immense talents deserve a genuflection every now and then.
"We came back, and as usual, it slipped away," senior co-captain Cara Frey said about her last collegiate game. "It was fitting that the season ended like this."
In the end, this need to exclude in order to feel a sense of belonging is somehow fitting at this school. For after all, can there be any institution more exclusive than Harvard University?