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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

...duty-free-shopping mogul who gave away more than $2 billion to educational and human-rights causes over almost two decades--all of it anonymously. "He's not a person who goes to glitzy events," says John Healy, CEO of Feeney's foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies. "He would abhor the idea of his name being attached to a building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philanthropy: Secret Sharers | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...Europeans certainly don't want Iran to go nuclear, and France, Germany and Britain are leading a diplomatic effort to dissuade Tehran from engaging in uranium-enrichment activities that could be used to build a bomb. Their motivation is not simply because they abhor the emergence of yet another nuclear-armed state in a very unstable part of the world, but also because they fear that the consequences to global security of military action by either the U.S. or Israel to stop Tehran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Iran Will Go Nuclear | 2/12/2005 | See Source »

...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

When you in the press say, Brahimi is forming a government, I abhor that. I don't think this is what I'm trying to do. What I'm doing is listening to what Iraqis are saying that they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq The Power Struggle: Lakhdar Brahimi: Security ... Is Just Impossible | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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