Word: suddenness
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First of all, I had nothing to do with the Harvard-Yale decision. It’s bad, and it’s sudden, and it’s right that you should be upset. But just be upset for a week, and then give me ideas about other ways to make it more fun...we can’t change the alcohol rules because of the City of Boston and the Boston Police, but we do want to make this tailgate great. I mean, it’s a 72-hour weekend, and the college is only officially regulating...
...father Gareth, a charismatic professor and Casanova. For reasons unforeseen, the pair settles down at a North Carolina private school where Blue meets Hannah Schneider. Schneider is more than a teacher; she’s “a shade of grey,” and her sudden death, which Pessl reveals in the first chapter, catalyzes a series of peculiar events. We follow Blue as she Nancy Drews around campus, collecting specimens from her past and the not-so-distant pasts of others in efforts to unravel the twisted circumstances surrounding the fatality...
Steve-O and I were both in a llama suit walking around in a pen with wild boars, and all of a sudden we felt something pushing against us. I looked around, and an elk had mounted...
...political-action committee, suggesting their votes against a Democratic funding measure deprived U.S. troops of modern body armor. In fact, the Government Accountability Office found that a lack of money didn't cause the armor shortfall in 2003. Rather, the military's suppliers could not keep up with the sudden surge in demand for the armor...
Imagine the public’s confusion, and outrage, if the government suddenly decided to dock 15 percent of its disbursals for an unknown purpose. Unthinkable? Not if the ‘government’ is Harvard University and the recipients are student groups. On Sep. 7, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin announced that student groups’ donor gift accounts, which allow alumni to earmark their Harvard donations for specific student groups, will face a 15 percent tax on all withdrawals. The tax will start at 5 percent this fiscal year and rise an additional...