Word: statement
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...like to refocus the debate with some facts about working conditions at Harvard. These are the facts that motivate the Living Wage Campaign, and as Rudenstine's statement makes clear, they are facts that administrators like to keep very quiet...
Administrators, more than any other group of people I know, have the amazing ability to make anything sound boring. A case in point is the statement that President Neil L. Rudenstine issued last week on "contingent workforce issues," enticingly titled "Statement of President Neil L. Rudenstine On Contingent Workforce Issues." Most students probably didn't see it--it was in the Gazette, and it really was so dreary that I had to start it three or four times before I could convince myself to get all the way through...
What's crazy is that this statement should have been anything but boring. It was Rudenstine's first public effort to stave off pressure for a living wage. His tactic, however, was dull writing, designed to convince the reader that poverty on our campus is just a mundane, technical issue that literally can be left to the boss. Specifically, Rudenstine explained in 550 words that he has a committee looking into things...
...course it is, honey. You are barely over five feet, barely over rattles and Gerber, and you are wearing nothing but a tiara, neon pink flowing genie pants, a pale pink almost see-through top, and a pimply, large-panted freshman boyfriend. Of course, the boyfriend responded to the statement spoken to the girls friend as an invitation for action. "Don't worry, baby. I'll keep you warm," followed by a sloppy kiss and a scrawny arm around her body. Smooth move, Barry White...
DeWolfe security guard Errol Allen appeared behind her, grabbed her upper left arm, then stumbled around in front of her, she said in her statement...