Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more difficult process than it ought to be. About the time you're half-way across the courtyard (because it would be entirely too convenient for Harvard to have located laundry machines in the basement of every first-year dorm), you realize that a t-shirt, sweats and flip-flops aren't about to cut it when the temperature is 40 below. Of course, when you finally get to the laundry room, you find that the one deranged person who woke up before ten to do his laundry has used up all of the machines. Rather than brave the cold...
...even now, as the spring semester begins, the question still lingers. As I flip through syllabi and browse reading lists, I question the professors of this fine school. What are my professors thinking when they assign such overwhelming amounts of reading? Do they honestly think it feasible to read, understand and appreciate 150 pages of dense reading each week? Are they not aware that Harvard students are enrolled in other courses, that students also have a life outside of academia? Since when did more become synonymous with better when it comes to education...
...Flip-flopping of any kind is not tolerated in South Carolina, so the Bush people are using McCain's abortion contortion to help shape a message: McCain is the Clinton of the G.O.P. primary. Bush's top strategist in the state, Warren Tompkins, says McCain is "taking positions to the left in order to find a constituency, play a numbers game." He calls McCain's tax policy "more Clintonesque than Reaganesque." And of McCain's plan to use most of the surplus to reduce the national debt and shore up Social Security, he adds, "I don't believe our party...
...overall effect was funny. Also, him getting hurt turned out to be pretty funny after all." said Margaret C. Lee '03...Jill Hill '00 caused quite a stir in the Winthrop dining hall Wednesday morning. The ninth-semester senior came to breakfast clad in warm-up pants and flip-flops. Identically-garbed Denise P. Laffer '01 was totally embarrassed...after extensive consultation with Dr. Hu of Atlantic Community Clinics, Gossip Guy was disappointed to learn that chronic masturbation is not an actual affliction. Nevertheless, he will continue to use this term to describe people like Samantha L. Watson '02...Freshman...
...those of you looking at this from your home office, it looks as though there's now less chance of getting your employer to foot the bill for an ergonomically correct desk chair or smoke detectors. This week the Labor Department solidified its flip-flop on the issue of safety of home offices by officially exonerating employers from responsibility for safety conditions in remote home offices. What remains to be seen is whether employers, faced with rising costs in meeting heightened office safety standards - such as maintaining higher levels of air quality - will direct more employees into the home...