Word: suddenness
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...sudden resignation of Undergraduate Council Vice President Ian W. Nichols ’06 steered Harvard’s student government into uncharted territory. The council’s inadequate response to the unexpected crisis, which saw former vice presidential candidate Clay T. Capp ’06 elected at a special council meeting last Thursday, speaks to a real need for change in the council’s bylaws. The selection of the council vice president is a matter too important to be left to a small group of representatives—subject to immense internal political pressures?...
...helped deliver her own grandchild, was forever bringing home stray animals, and worked as a volunteer at her local hospital. Now Willie Terpstra badly needs help herself. Last year, mystified by the sudden slurring of her speech, the lively 64-year-old from Rotorua, New Zealand, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and told she had two or three years left. With her speech deteriorating, she flew with her husband Rein to Holland, from where they migrated two decades ago, desperately seeking treatment. "But they told us the same thing - there's really nothing," says Rein. Then he and Willie...
...happens in Cambridge, from a student performance to a “groping” or a car catching fire, The Crimson reports that it happened, not that somebody claimed it happened. In reporting this assault, which I regard as a most worrying event, The Crimson all of a sudden places strong emphasis on the victim’s subjective perception, not on the event itself. There were six witnesses to the event (according to your article) besides the assaulted student himself—why not just write that he was, in fact, assaulted...
...sweatpants in hot weather, there's a chance something is being hidden. Temperamental behavior, intense anger and changes in eating and sleeping patterns may also be warning signals--but they are also part of the ordinary storms of adolescence, so it's wise not to overinterpret. Less ambiguous are sudden shifts in mood. "If a kid is mopey at 5 and much better at 5:30," says Hartstein, "you may want to know what happened in that half-hour." Parents should also keep an eye out for hidden stashes of blades or bandages...
...Iraqis, denial can be the best way to cope with the knowledge that a sudden, violent death is merely a matter of being on the wrong street corner at the wrong time. For the 138,000 U.S. troops serving in Iraq, there are few refuges from the arbitrary violence that continues to plague much of the country; for Iraqi civilians there are none. After a two-month lull following the Jan. 30 election, attacks by insurgent groups have spiked over the past two weeks, coinciding with the formation of a new government. Most of the recent wave of attacks, which...