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...electricity. But if we do some simple calculations, we can see that the marginal cost of keeping the library running is minimal. First off, Harvard runs its own energy plant, so that cost is down to zero. Second, Harvard only needs to maintain two students and one adult to keep Lamont open...
...wonderful thing about volunteer programs is that they offer anyone a chance to effect the same kind of change which might lead to convoluted political battles on a larger scale, while staying safely committed to nonpartisan common goals like providing adults with the skills they need to find employment themselves. Members of both political parties volunteer for PEN, Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods, a student group at Harvard devoted to adult education, empowering its adult students, many of whom are supporting families, with literacy and job skills. PEN is one of many volunteer organizations that benefit from some government funding. This...
...hopper. He has said he hasn't seen the movies he attacks. He is allergic to rumination. The emcee for his rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, warmed up the crowd by chanting, "Dole's not dull. Dole's not dull." But Dole, whom G.O.P. guru Ken Duberstein dubbed the Comeback Adult, can counter Clinton's act with an admonition: Sure, the baby boomer may read more, talk more, surf the net, hum the pop charts. But I am an adult with a memory, and useful scars, and a better radar system to guide us safely through the wilderness...
...make Bill Clinton come off as laconic, remained so closely associated with Nebraska that he was sometimes known as "the boy orator of the Platte." (The Smoky Hill River does run through Russell County, Kansas, but Dole has probably lived in Washington too long to be known as "the adult mumbler of the Smoky Hill...
...meeting privately weeks ago to figure out how to help. Part of the problem, they realized, was that Dole had no one with him on his plane who could read him the riot act. He had lots of staff but no peers. That was fixed by rotating the designated adult on the plane. "You need someone who can focus his attention on what he ought to be saying," said a Republican Senator's aide, "and can look him in the eye when he falls flat and say, 'Well, that didn't work...