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...that means Ben and if Ben is attached to Liz. . .we just can't have that." Voices rise, "Jenny said she'll go wherever Dan goes and she brings Sarah and if we have Dan then we have to deal with Sarah." AHHHHH!!!! This class of the best and brightest disintegrate into little clusters where miscommunication and hostile feelings are the only assumptions that can safely been made about anything. Why do we have to do this? What happens at all those other schools...
...remain the acceptable face of Irish republicanism. For the moment, Adams is still an important--and perhaps indispensable--part of the peace process. Says Alex Attwood, a Belfast city councilor representing a ward in Roman Catholic West Belfast: "Adams and his first- line managers are the best and the brightest. People may not like them, but they need to be sustained if we are going to secure peace...
...narrator of Zenzele, a woman who writes words of wisdom to her daughter, a Harvard student, explains, "[O]ur churches and governments pour money into [these students], who ultimately drain our resources. If our brightest minds go and never return, then it is no wonder that we have no engineers to run our machinery, no doctors to staff our hospitals, no professors to fill our universities, and no teachers to educate the generations to come...
...public service. In addition, the high visibility and persuasiveness of businesses which engage in the on-campus recruiting process, Curtis said, sways many students at schools like Harvard toward the private sector. While consulting, investing banking, and other types of firms have put a premium on aggressively pursuing the brightest emerging minds from the nation's top colleges, the public sector has not paralleled this effort...
What kid wouldn't like to be president? Like many on this campus, I saw the presidency as the ultimate credential when I was younger. Precocious youngsters develop the need for affirmation; someone telling them that they are somehow the best and brightest. And for the now-mature over-achievers that we all know and love as friends here, the presidency seemed to offer that. Besides being confirmed as among the top of their class, what little kid wouldn't want to plop his or her feet up on the desk of the Oval Office and smoke a nice wooden...