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Many graduating seniors will shortly ascend (or descend, depending on your perspective or your politics) to business offices across America. Heed this warning now--how far your career gets depends directly on how you treat the clerical staff. They are not your servants nor are they there to take the blame everytime you screw up. Say "please" and do the little stuff on your own (it won't really hurt your dignity to address that letter yourself) and you will find that, come crunch time, the secretary will drop everything to rush your report to the Federal Express Office...
...pushing Charles' candidacy for this hypothetical job. In instant TV polls, he was the clear loser in the blame game. He is said to be humiliated by the revelation of the raunchy, so-called Camillagate tapes. His whole life has gone into preparing to ascend a throne that now seems as remote as Camelot...
...soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry's Game, Clannad goes spare and liturgical, transmuting New Age tonal banality into ageless, ethereal beauty. If you ever ascend to heaven, this is the music you'll hear in the elevator...
When they're elected, substantive politicians like Reagan and JFK are able to ascend to the presidency with clear mandates for governance. Such was the case for Reagan in 1980 (though not in 1984) and for JFK in 1960. But Bush's vapid 1988 campaign left him with a mandate only for no new taxes, no furloughs for Black criminals, more flags and pork rinds...
Aron's satirical tone clearly criticizes the deep-rooted racism underlying French disdain for Algerians. More Subtly, however, Aron condemns the anti-Semitism that both the French and Algerians express. When the Arabs die, they dance to a Mozart flute accompaniment and ascend to heaven. Aron does not grant the "greedy matzah man" an equally dignified death because he has purposely fictionalized the character beyond the point of human life...