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Madhavan said that each player has a different playing style and that the team tries to attain a good balance of players...
Eight years ago, when I was a senior in college, I started Teach For America because I was convinced that a national teacher corps of America's most talented individuals could fundamentally change our country--by ensuring that more of our nation's young people have the opportunity to attain an excellent education, and by influencing the consciousness of a corps of individuals who will ultimately be among our nation's leaders...
Surely, the story I have told about Kevin doesn't incorporate his disappointments, namely his failure to attain the external achievement that the preprofessional student body both in the '80s and today (myself included) has intensely craved. At his upcoming 15th reunion, Kevin will surely not be blind to the inevitable comparison with others in his class, his roommates (one an arbitrageur), his acting buddies, the guy down the hall, the girl from section. Will it make a difference to him whether his life lacks the traditional accoutrements of American success? If it does, will that outweigh the benefits gained...
...Jordan's Bulls play, or without the University of North Carolina (sounds like a state school to me). Indeed, even Binswanger went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--he was dependent on the state, too. But, no Objectivist would ever admit to people's dependence on one another to attain great heights...
...desire to offer women equal rights in the U.S. armed services [NATION, Nov. 25], we seem to have lost sight of the main purpose--to attain difficult military objectives against strong enemies with maximum efficiency and minimum loss of American lives. The armed services have made a good attempt at enlisting both sexes in these goals, but the losses exceed the gains. EDWARD J. KINGSBURY Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts...