Word: admit
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Hard as it is for some of us to admit, the Dink-Stover-at-Yale days are over. The ideal notion that a lad should just be grateful for the education he receives in exchange for a few hours of practice and the glory of Saturday afternoon is as dead as the dropkick. Who knows what the time of death was? It might have been when the shoe companies began dropping unmarked bills on coaches to wear their swooshes and stripes. It might have been when NBC decided to pay holier-than-thou Notre Dame $38 million for the exclusive...
What have you got to offer to make it worth the risk for an overseas employer to take a chance on an unknown American student? Probably a lot, but be prepared to address this question. Also, be prepared to admit that it might be easier and in the end necessary to present your case in person rather than through the relative anonymity of a cover letter and a resume. Courtesy is at a premium in this transaction, but so is a motivated (yet sensitive) persistence. Don't give up, but don't be overly aggressive in your attempts to sell...
...List was just what we thought we needed: a check list, a syllabus, a hand to hold just as we were letting go. I'll admit that armed with The List, we all thought we were studs. It truly was immense to the eye. I've seen some lists that have the obvious needs: sheets, computer, alarm clock, towels. I've even seen some flashes of creativity in lists that extolled the virtues of packing and shipping such things as flip-flops and Imodium A-D caplets...
...made me realize that I am not the only person whose grasp on reality was shaken by the Tonight Show appearance of Elizabeth Dole in motorcycle duds. In fact, I believe our response to her appearance was symptomatic of a problem more widespread than people have been willing to admit...
Dole differs from Clinton on the question of expanding NATO too. Dole wants the alliance to admit Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic by 1998, a quicker timetable than the President deems prudent, given Russia's opposition. But Dole goes even further. He also wants the Baltic states in NATO, a step guaranteed to worsen U.S. relations with Moscow. This is a debate worth having, but don't hold your breath. In the current campaign's game of charge and countercharge, sober discussion has taken a back seat...