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...library unless it came with a diploma. I would extend this definition of institution into the more informal realm of culture, for example, to Alcohol: the institution of drinking on weekend nights is so standard for us that even if we nominally regret not having finished that paper instead of “going out,” we don’t usually consider it wasted time. However, if I spent several hours on a weeknight just sitting around with my blockmates, I would probably feel guilty about not doing something more constructive...
...truly epic gathering, to be sure––found it particularly difficult to step around the pools of drunken vomit. Likewise, a certain birthday boy found it near impossible to tolerate all the Pudding served at his celebration, and was forced instead to toss his cookies...
...wildly inappropriate, terribly disrespectful, and downright mean, and I don’t know where it came from. I would like to think that I am not just a sucker for schadenfreude and that instead the hysterics were partially the result of feeling out of place in the devout setting. Or partially because of the irony that “Emanuel” is also the name of my temple back home. Or maybe it was just an expression of pure immaturity. I really don’t know. Regardless, it was a jolly service indeed...
...that, I was spending 40 hours a week seeing the way so many other 40-hour weeks were spent. I got a chance to play at real life between my study abroad Euro-trip and life back on Harvard time, and now I’m seven minutes behind instead of six hours ahead...
...surge in 2007, which Gates supported, more than 100 soldiers a month were dying. It's almost impossible as an outsider to understand why the Pentagon would not want to build the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, known as MRAPs, that would have saved many of those soldiers' lives. Instead of budgeting for MRAPs, the Pentagon was still spending money on outdated weapon systems. So Gates bypassed the normal procurement process, created a special task force, went to Congress and got the money to build them. "Those vehicles saved hundreds of lives and limbs," says a senior Pentagon official...