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...that Harvard presents can—does—wreak havoc on them. First comes first-year orientation programs, then freshman seminars, maybe honors-only concentrations, definitely seminars and conference courses. Worse are the extracurriculars: “comping” the Advocate, the Crimson, or the Lampoon; the arduous Let’s Go applications and interviews; some PBHA programs and other committees (even, ironically, Room 13); the social organizations—rejection is the definitive Harvard experience...
...self-improvement could begin with what most experts consider the best if most arduous and dangerous way to disrupt terror: so-called human intelligence, provided by informants and agents. The CIA has long been criticized for its reliance on diplomatic cover for its main officers, which stymies attempts to recruit locals in countries like Afghanistan, where the U.S. has no embassy, or Pakistan, where the native spooks keep close tabs on official Americans. Ever since a 1995 uproar about the CIA's use of Guatemalan informants linked to torture and murder, the agency has been required to perform "human rights...
...Compaq or HP seems to be under any illusion about the arduous tasks ahead--blending their cultures, cutting costs ruthlessly (the target is $2.5 billion by 2004) and cracking the services market. Compaq founder Canion, for one, is cautiously optimistic. "These are strong companies being judged in a tough time," he says. At the very least, his baby's new mom has managed to defer judgment for a little while longer...
...Institutes of Health that arrived at the 60 figure, conducting a worldwide survey of labs to determine which ones had viable cell lines already in inventory. As recently as last month, the NIH put the figure at just 30, but after what a senior Administration official described as an "arduous process" of searching, the number doubled...
...beyond them? We wake up every few months and find ourselves in a weird new world. Do the educated and successful and privileged classes of the information-saturated post-industrial West now consider the reading of books to be something optional and quaint, like candles at dinner - a throwback, arduous and unnecessary, like knowing Latin and Greek (once indispensable among the educated...