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...committed to creating ways for students to come together and share ideas, feeding already-established passions and sparking new ones. Frustrated with the “intellectual parochialism” she sees at Harvard, Lavin wants people—herself included —to feel free to abandon the “pre-formed self-definition” that makes many scared to venture outside their specialties...
...risky investing by commercial banks is nothing more than a cynical attempt to gain populist support at a time when his domestic agenda is flagging. But if the failure of the banking bill presents Obama with an opportunity to initiate a new phase of his presidency, he needs to abandon more than just his financial policy: the entire populist strategy that it represented has to go as well...
...prevent the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Lieberman opposed Attorney General Eric Holder's decision last November to try 9/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts, and earlier this year he rallied Republicans and Democrats to sign a letter to Holder urging him to abandon the trials in favor of military tribunals. In February, Lieberman threatened to cut off funds for civilian trials if Holder didn't relent. (See 10 elections that changed America...
...plane of personal or professional achievement. Beard is “a man of science” with “an automatic respect for internal consistency.” He knows truth to be “impregnable,” but he also knows that he can abandon his old life in order to inhabit his own reality. Beard believes that after learning “the tricks of managing, of simply being” he will reach “the calm plateau” where he will finally be content. But as he progresses through life...
However, Hancké describes a scenario in which continued market doubts could drive the value of Greek bonds to junk status, confounding outside efforts to bail Athens out and forcing Greece to simply abandon the euro before it drags the currency down to nothing. "Once that happens, markets then turn successively on indebted countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland until they're driven out as well," Hancké explains. "At that point, even if a core of countries continue using the euro after so many others have left, the currency will have lost it's main original function...