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...implacable as a tombstone. Bush's budget illustrates why compassionate conservatism, as a practical governing philosophy, is doomed. The first half of the phrase cancels out the second--or maybe it's the other way around. In any case, Bush finds himself in a muddle--too timid to admit his conservative impulses, too conservative to please the forces of compassion...
It’s all so utterly convenient, isn’t it. Tyranny rears its head, women and children are slaughtered. We are not man enough to buck up, take responsibility, and send an army down to impose our will, or to simply admit, honestly, that the events do not concern us, and that the time and money are better spent at home. This would be—gasp!—imperialistic, or it would be callous. It would not be easy, and we need it to be easy...
...scouts are not to be confused with rocket scientists. They make mistakes, but who doesn't? (I fully admit to tuning my TV to an XFL game once.) So scouts are forgiven for what my 20/20 hindsight shows were major lapses in judgment during past drafts...
Joyce Curll '65, dean of admissions at the law school, said that one of three Harvard graduates is admitted to the J.D. program, whereas the overall admit ratio is one of eight or nine applicants. Last year alone, the law school admitted over a hundred graduates of Harvard College...
...most Harvard graduate schools admit far more Harvard College graduates than graduates from any other undergraduate institution...