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...made a very kind and generous offer, and I would want her to know that I am touched that she has offered her time, energy, and money to make our faculty meetings a little brighter. We choose to forego cookies at our faculty meetings as part of our larger effort to live within our new budgetary reality. Unsurprisingly, this amenity was less important to our mission than, say, maintaining financial aid for one more needy student. We certainly didn't eliminate cookies in the hope that someone else would pay for this amenity. The FAS is, of course, not unique...
...reality of Detroit. And that reality is that Detroit, like all other cities, is human. Beneath the statistics and the headlines, people live there. They struggle with profound change, they fight to raise and educate their families, they mourn the past, and they hope for a brighter future...
...Brighter Future Your article "Joburg Gets It Together" tells South Africans more about the positive developments taking place in Soweto than our own media does [Aug. 24]. For some reason our society constantly and greedily demands to know about what is wrong, while disregarding or belittling everything that is positive. Our homemade prophets of doom shake their heads and try to convince us that we are heading for a failed and shameful 2010 World Cup. It is also true, though, that the new black élite, beneficiaries of the Black Economic Empowerment, have joined the white élite and have...
...wears his heroic grin with a subversive idiot twist; his steely-eyed certitude reveals just a flick of lunacy. Otherwise, Clooney is reasonable, understated, channeling his charisma without really trying. When he tamps down the movie-star magic and just lets it seep out, it glows all the brighter...
...delve into the specifics of how exactly he intended to pay for it. The president must clear up ambiguities on this matter in the near future if he is to command wider support. Overall, Obama made his vision clear, defended his principles, and gave hope to a brighter future in the world of health care. We hope that representatives of both parties work together in order to find the proper cure for a seriously ailing health-care system...