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...abruptly announcing that he would quit his post "to regain the trust of the people." Yet his departure had been a long time coming, as pressure built for months over what the Japanese call kinken-seiji, or money politics, the well-oiled system by which the nation's leaders attain power...
...qualify for regionals, a rider has to attain at least 28 points. In the last show of the season, the freshman won a blue ribbon (seven points) to reach regionals, her fourth ribbon of the year...
They may plan festive retreats once a year. And they may publish a "leader's handbook" which presumably would help run-of-the-mill Harvard students attain the exalted "student officer" status...
...stunned. "Must be a cruel joke," I thought. Or perhaps some strange dining hall prophecy about a March to come to in a distant future, when even Seafood Seashell Scampi or the nameless big beefy "extravaganzas" in brown gravy will attain nutritional grandeur...
...point is that diversity is a goal worth some sacrifice from all of us, and a goal that isn't achieved spontaneously. Moreover, diversity is worthwhile in a college which can attain it so easily as Harvard can. Members of the College would do well to pursue a healthy balance between choice and diversity and support Jewett's new proposal...