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...rest of us find ourselves? It is doubtful that even the greatest pains of poetic justice will deter the profit-starved college students from seeking a position that permits the immediate destruction of thousands of lives with a single decision. The allure of money, power and corporate expense accounts attract the ambitious and well-educated like sharks to a shipwreck. Rest assured that for every job you ever take, dozens of your classmates are vying for the opportunity to downsize you. Or maybe you will be the one pruning the workforce, sending a former teammate or study partner...
...that followed, I couldn't get Senator McConnell's remark out of my mind, particularly when I was eating yogurt. Although just about every morning's paper was bringing another allegation of influence-peddling blatant enough to make Boss Tweed blush, the estimable John McCain had been able to attract only one other Republican Senator to the campaign-finance reform bill that he is co-sponsoring with Senator Russell Feingold. With a number of Democratic Senators also reluctant, McCain-Feingold was increasingly spoken of as a dead issue...
...done that, but it's terribly difficult," Guzzetti says. "The people you want to attract are not pursuing careers in academia. You have to identify these people and persuade them that this is something they want...
...Loker but is rather a case in its favor. One of the most significant problems with Loker as a student center is that, because of its proximity to first-year dorms and Annenberg Hall, it is typically dominated by the College's youngest students. By offering something to attract seniors to Loker, a balance between the College's newcomers and fossils might be reached that would bring sophomores and juniors in line, making Loker the center for all Harvard undergraduates that it was intended...
Obviously, no one would expect the woman's squash team to attract thousands of fans to each match...