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Pretty much the first thing that happened to me at Harvard was getting rejected. Like most freshmen, I applied for freshman seminars. Three professors interviewed me for a combined ten minutes, and I wrote agonizingly self-conscious answers in the blank spaces of the questionnaire. Then, on the allotted day, I walked up to the second floor of 8 Prescott St. and looked for my name on the alphabetized lists of those fortunate few who got in. Like the vast majority of applicants, my name was not on the lists. For some, rejection starts before arrival on campus: Each year...
...course, military actions carry the danger that innocent lives will be lost. A heavy bombing raid that caused many civilian casualties would create a world in the terrorists’ image, one of random violence against civilians. But a blank check on the use of force by intelligence agencies poses a similar and perhaps a greater threat. And limiting covert assassinations to individuals directly involved in terrorist attacks would be fruitless, as actions that go beyond the limits might never come to public light...
...Dylan is flipping through his own back pages. He has finally started writing an autobiography. It began as liner notes for rereleases of his back-catalog albums; he has finished about 200 pages, or perhaps 150--he's not exactly certain. "My retrievable memory, it goes blank on incidents and things that have happened," says Dylan. He has trouble, sometimes, remembering events from decades past, when he was conjuring up albums like Highway 61 Revisited and unleashing songs like Maggie's Farm. So he is collecting anecdotes about himself that other people have told and weaving them into his narrative...
...other congressional barons agreed. "What we don't want to do is give up our constitutional powers and make it a blank check," one participant told me. They ordered their staffs to move quickly on the administration's emergency funding request, but to move carefully on drafting the legislation. Congress didn't have to go overboard and approve the full load now. Remember, Obey told the group: After the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress passed 12 supplemental appropriations bills to fund its recovery. By the end of last week, Congress appropriated $40 billion, kicking in $20 billion extra for New York...
...other congressional barons agreed. "What we don't want to do is give up our constitutional powers and make it a blank check," one participant told me. They ordered their staffs to move quickly on the administration's emergency funding request, but to move carefully on drafting the legislation. Congress didn't have to go overboard and approve the full load now. Remember, Obey told the group: After the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress passed 12 supplemental appropriations bills to fund its recovery. By the end of last week, Congress appropriated $40 billion, kicking in $20 billion extra for New York...