Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extracurriculars at the Activities Fair is a reminder of what they themselves haven't done, or what they wish they had. Harvard seems to value achievements above all else, and Harvard students are typically characterized as overachievers. Americans in general seem to be afflicted by the particular desire to accomplish and succeed...
What do I want to get out of my Harvard experience? What have I accomplished here, and what more could I accomplish before I leave? In a sense, I think these are precisely the wrong questions to be asking. What is important here is not so much what is accomplished, but what is begun...
TIME: Have you changed the way you think government can best accomplish things...
...plays offense and defense simultaneously. He labors to tempt and to deceive. The batter cannot know what is coming. He can go down swinging or looking and be made to look the fool. Yet he has a bat in his hands. And if all goes well and he can accomplish that most difficult feat in sports by hitting a 90-m.p.h. sphere with a heavy rounded stick, well then, fate is thwarted for a moment and the power over life...
...this case, however, is some lone mad person, like the Unabomer or some renegade rebels from overseas. These people are beyond control. They may have some token demands, but above all, they are about irrational hate. We can incarcerate them, prosecute them, bomb their native country, and we accomplish nothing. We can attack the symptoms, perhaps, but we have no cure for the disease...