Word: get
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Powerbook reads like a work that cannot get over itself. Yes, the premise is interesting; a woman opens up her e-mail only to be transported into various places across the world in assorted times, from Ancient Rome, to the Medieval Era, to a strange pre-industrial world. Genders change, lovers change, sexuality changes. The protagonist is at once male and female, hetero and homosexual, and has some great sex scenes inducing readers to reconsider their fantasy location...
...pretension of this book, with its Zen-like attempts at pedantry and its flippant exchanges with time prompted me to wonder, where the heck does this woman get the audacity to publish such garbage? Furthermore, what prompted her publisher to actually waste the money on the book's production...
...presidential candidate really wanted to represent students' interests he wouldn't be focusing on mundane details such as soup and salad in Loker or even what kind of band--if any--he'll get to play at Springfest. He'd be demanding more Faculty, agitating to strip down our inefficient bureacracy and institute a better advising system. He wouldn't be "working with administrators" to negotiate lower phone bills--let the Campus Life Committee handle that. Instead, he'd be a highly vocal advocate of the student interests that extend beyond our pocketbooks and our stomachs...
...needs we get shortchanged most on are our intellectual ones. TF's who don't speak English, a lack of thesis advisors--not to mention advisors in general--one-on-one tutorials disappearing the way of the dodo and our cool and outrageous ideas stymied by paperwork and a matrix of rules so complex they make the best of us simply accept the inevitability of defeat. We want the Harvard administration to be more responsive to our needs, but we also want less Harvard administration...
...alumni are very generous according to their abilities," Ellison says. "But Ph.D. students don't necessarily end up being as wealthy as other students. No one goes into academia to get rich...