Word: label
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...it’s well-known in my circle of friends that my favorite cookie is the coconut-and-caramel Samoa. Yes, it’s a strange name, but evoking the image of the Samoans, known for their sumo wrestlers and Santa-like jolliness, seems an appropriate enough label for the cookie (70 calories apiece...
...beyond that, I’m an angry white middle-American male, disenchanted by the increasing flow of PC into our society. Frankly, the label Samoa was quite appropriate—perhaps the name was meant to conjure the pervasive coconut taste for which the Samoa Islands are known. After all, if Detroit was famous for a fattening food that tasted like smog or whatever else Detroit is famous for, would we refrain from calling it a “Detroit” because the city’s average resident is overweight? I think...
...upcoming Latino guide to life at Harvard have been made possible by this more concerted effort to pool the groups’s collective resources and talents for the benefit of the entire community. And in the process of working together, the various nationalities and cultures encapsulated by the label ‘Latino’ can get a better understanding of one another’s particular traditions and beliefs...
Suggs draws out a bingo ball and reads the label: “O-69.” A bawdy cheer goes...
...don’t want to be labeled as that girl who tried to kill herself,” said panelist Caitlin E. Stork ’04, who said she attempted suicide twice during her sophomore year in high school. “I encourage you to see [people who have contemplated suicide] and not just label them...