Word: loudnesses
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First comes the shy admission—“I’m attending a recruiting event”—invariably followed by a shuffling of the feet. Then arrives the reticent grin, and finally a laugh, usually too loud. After that, the inevitable attempt at penance...
...Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose, interspersed with song lyrics, shape poems, plays, and political ads. Sixteen years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores. In the nine months preceding his birth on Oct. 12, 1992 (the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs the web of romances and hatreds, schemes and coincidences that caused his conception...
...Patrick Harris (“Doogie Howser”) and Alyson Hannigan (“American Pie” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”). A lot of the jokes are run-of-the-mill, but thanks to Segel and Harris you will laugh out loud...
...special pair of headphones with a microphone built in (sold separately), but it's best to use the VX9800 as a mini boombox. The clarity of the stereo speakers is much better than expected, perhaps a little tinny with not a lot of midrange, but plenty loud, with no distortion, even at peak volume...
...affiliates and other relevant staff should be dispatched to disaster areas (as they were in the wake of the tsunami and Katrina). And Harvard should lend its resources to displaced members of academia (like Loyola and Tulane students) as well. With these contributions, Harvard is already making a statement, loud and clear, that it is part of the national and the international community. Any extra money on the side will hurt Harvard more than it will help those in need.It is impossible to defeat every counterargument to my proposal without seeming heartless. Every student, including me, would forfeit $3 million...