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...never mind. If reading the works of 26 authors proves too arduous a prospect, Bloom offers a final shortcut for the canonically hungry: "Shakespeare is the secular canon, or even the secular scripture; forerunners and legatees alike are defined by him alone for canonical purposes...
Aware of this dilemma, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has sought to aid us in our desperation. As everyone knows, the CUE guide offers a convenient numerical compass in our arduous selection process...
...root, the problem is not personalities but ideas. Even the most skilled statesman would flounder if lashed to the central idea of the Clinton foreign policy: that in the post-cold war era the U.S. can shed its arduous international responsibilities by transferring them to the U.N. or sundry other multilateral constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling...
Being minority among minorities is rather interesting and can be amusing when people sometimes assume I am a socialist. However, overtly anti conservative comments and accusations of being tool for the oppressive white male make being a conservative Hispanic freshman a sometimes arduous experience...
...would think this liberation would make the sport slightly less laborious. Not at all. Skating remains one of the most arduous athletic endeavors a child can pursue. To be an Olympic-caliber competitor in any sport requires tremendous devotion at an early age, but a youngster who desires to be the best on ice faces special demands. Serious training can easily cost $40,000 a year in coaching fees, costumes, skates and living expenses. The little prodigy who can already do a double flip rarely lives near one of the dozen or so shrines where the top coaches preside: either...