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...been informed about an outbreak at Harvard. Meanwhile, students are struggling to accommodate illness in their busy schedules. Thaker, a senior, was struck by the illness a few weeks before his thesis was due. “I had a fever about 103 or 104. I was really weak and I had a lot of body aches so that kept me from working or leaving the room. And I was still contagious,” he said, adding that he has recovered fully. “Four days is quite a setback,” he said...
Flash forward nine years. I offer a weak defense of Crichton while the other editors silently doubt my credentials...
Dupri, the Boyz, D4L (whose “Laffy Taffy” blew up all over the country and whose cheap, minimalist sound precipitated the formation of this group), et al. have managed to make a club trend out of really weak drum machines and minimal production. It’s good business, and it works. This is the kind of music that you say you hate, but which secretly you wish you could play at full volume without fear of being smacked...
...offender in this respect is “Joy Ride,” an uninspired torch song in which Carey likens the pleasures of love to, surprise, a joy ride—not exactly the most potent of metaphors. Worse, Carey attempts to overshadow the track’s weak production with an excessively acrobatic vocal performance. At times it’s unclear whether she’s singing or just running through scales...
Perhaps, but it wasn't just the unthinkable possibility of appearing weak on national security next to Hillary Clinton and Edward Kennedy that drove Hill Republicans to take on the President. It was a feeling that he was treating them with contempt. Even as McClellan spoke about appeasement, there was grumbling that the White House still hadn't contacted Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert directly to talk matters through, and a House leadership aide noted that "with the veto threat and then the accusation that members were being xenophobic, [the President] alienated them even more...