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Warren Buffet may not care whether his successor has a college degree, but I am confident that he would care if his successor had lied on her résumé. What will the world become if we abandon honesty? Do we really want our kids to lie on their college applications just so they can get accepted to M.I.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: May 28, 2007 | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...dance club that is the third floor main reading room with all of its motion and commotion, check out the upper-level reading room, the “quiet zone.” When you’re ready to re-gain your sanity, however, abandon the mountain-folk of Lamont’s highest floor (and the lone, miniature pine-tree that adorns the middle of the room) to return to lower altitudes. First Floor Group Study Area. Most of the 40-year-old Lammy randos that look like they could use a good shit-shave-shower combo don?...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Out with Park Place, in with Pusey | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Teachers expressed concern that I would lose my focus, that this would be a small step that would lead to slippery slope whereby I would abandon all hopes of continuing my education,” he says...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Before College, A Taste of the Real World | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

...Clinton also criticized the Defense Department for working in the last six years to create two new types of nuclear weapons while encouraging other countries to abandon their nuclear programs...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Harvard, Bill Clinton Urges Crisis Prevention | 5/7/2007 | See Source »

...would be a mistake to abandon the idea of progress because history does not follow a linear path to social harmony or because most progress—though certainly not all—has an embarrassingly Western origin. As logical positivists like Wittgenstein showed, it is a “pseudo-problem” to argue over which value system or civilization is objectively superior, but in empirical terms of human happiness, progress is a fact, one that it would be a disservice to human history and the future to deny...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: The Truth in Progress | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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