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...will emerge from your FUP experience possessed by a burning desire to serve. Over the course of your four years, you will rise through the ranks of Phillips Brooks House, firing salvoes of bitter invective at University Hall. After you graduate, you will join the Peace Corps or City Year, eager to put yourself to good use. Soon, however, you will grow disgruntled and go to business school. Then you will become an "environmental consultant...
...nomination, they assured themselves that the Speaker's real goal was to exit gracefully from the House, a place he was no longer wanted. Newt's plans were so well known that Dick Armey, the majority leader, and Bob Livingston, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, have been waging a bitter battle of succession since February...
When The Cranberries rework "Go Your Own Way," they present a different problem. Dolores O'Riordan fails to sound sincere. She belts out "If I could, I'd give you my world," in bitter strains that sound as though she is still singing about bombs...
...That?s a blow for people like Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant rabble-rouser who launched a bitter ?No? campaign against the accord just one day ago. It?s a boost for John Hume and David Trimble, leaders of the more mainstream nationalist and unionist parties, who always said their members were behind the basic principles of this peace. ?It is the best deal available -- warts and all,? Trimble told the BBC Wednesday. And who?s afraid of a few warts like the North-South committee and the decommissioning of weapons? Not the Irish...
Okay. Maybe this seems melodramatic and bordering upon ridiculous. But it's true. And this bitter truth is no more ridiculous than the nebulous and elusive word "merit" itself. Let's take a simple example. If two seeds are planted and one is watered, given fertile soil, exposed to sunlight and otherwise nurtured while the other seed is neglected and left in dry, rocky soil in a dark closet, would scientists be correct in stating that the first seed (which sprouted, of course) had "merit" while the second (dead on arrival...