Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some may ask, what of merit? Where would society be if McKinsey were to select only among the best consultants, not the very best? And why would anyone bother to work hard anymore? These objections overstate the case. Merit would still be valued; you would need certain qualifications to be considered for a position at all. And once you got the opportunity in question, merit and hard work would still determine your rate of promotion...
...matter our class year, it's a blow to our egos when we see that Bill Clinton is speaking at Ball State, Bill Gates at Brandeis, Bill Cosby at Berkeley. We read the accounts of these speeches in The New York Times or see clips on CNN and ask, why not at Harvard? Given the extent to which we have been trained to expect only the best from Harvard--the most important professors, the biggest library system, the most famous name--it is all too easy to expect the best in terms of Commencement speakers...
Harvard seniors tend to apply to law school, and request deferrals, at rats disproportionate to other undergraduates, Curll said. About 40 percent of College students admitted directly to HLS ask to be deferred for a year...
...while we appreciate the College's concern for our health, we will stop short of dehumanizing smokers as non-citizens. We ask the dean to make programs and counseling services available to smokers who want to quit. At the same time, a limited number of ventilated smoking lounges would give smokers some freedom and warmth, while sparing their non-smoking counterparts from the fumes...
...what's the point of all this whining, you ask, aside from the free massages...