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...they operate on the meritocratic principle. What needs to be guarded against in the great universities is a more insidiousism, aristocratism. Like it or not, universities are at some level credential factories. They serve as a springboard for middle and lower-class individuals not only to live with and befriend those of the privileged classes--which is at least as important for the sake of the latter--but also to join them, eventually, in running this country...
...Economics of Disaster: An introduction into the wonders of insider information, the course would examine the mechanics of the first-aid market, offer detailed models of how small third-world countries select first-aid manufacturers with special attention on how to befriend the Health Minister...
Gordon says her involvement in activities away from Harvard has in large part been spurred by a desire to befriend people of different generations and from different backgrounds. And her interest in social issues goes far beyond refugees' concerns. She is concerned with women's rights, gay rights, and civil rights in general...
Bizarre symbolism abounds in this tale. Red is everywhere, from the Coke cans to the ever enigmatic Santa suit. And why does Roberts choose to befriend a small marsupial, of all creatures, that he finds in his apartment. But this movie is definitely not, as one Boston critic put it, too weird for words. The comedy of Coca-Cola Kid is akin to that of Bill Forsyth, odd and ethnic, but not inaccessible by any means. In contrast to the supposed Oscar heavy-weights that have gone thud this fall, The Coca-Cola Kid doesn't take itself or anyone...
...Helpers, all of whom he tells to be quiet while he tries to make a phone call. They do not, however, kill him in 18 different ways, as they want to do at first. Pee Wee's ingenuity not only allows him to save his own neck, but to befriend the roadies as well...