Word: admited
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...were concerned for a couple of years after 9/11 and we still have to worry about how easy it is for the students we admit to get visas,” Skocpol said. “We’re not so much worried about the number of applicants as we are to get the very best students...
...admit any of this. "I tell my little brother not to come," says Big Lin. "But I can't really tell him why." For every tale that burnishes the myth of immigrant success, there are many others that speak, if not of failure, then of drudgery, loneliness and a future in a land that will never quite be home. Back in Fujian, Big Lin had a decent job with a construction firm. He made enough to play games of pool with his friends and occasionally treat himself to a seafood feast. Still, Fujian is a place which young men leave...
...woods. That two-story house you bought in a remote setting may look good to you at 70. But how will you feel about it when getting upstairs isn't so easy? "It's hard for us to admit that one day we won't be as healthy," says Elinor Ginzler, director of livable communities at AARP. But it happens; when it does, it's nice to know that your journey into independent retirement came with a return ticket...
...embarrassed to admit that it took Imus' saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge. The sad truth is that unless you have a book to promote, there's often no other reason any writer or columnist has to do the show. If Rich wants to "talk in an informed way," I'm sure there's an open mike at C-Span Radio, and if there's really a hunger for such adult dialogue, does...
It’s a well-known fact that everyone has favorite publications that they don’t admit reading, guilty pleasures ranging from Playboy to “Ice by Ice: The Vanilla Ice Story in His Own Words.”The flip side of this secret indulgence is an intellectual hypocrisy, a tendency to pretend to have read books we’ve never even opened. In any course section there are one or two people that will blithely elaborate their views, completely undeterred by the fact that they haven’t done the reading...