Word: calloused
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Graduating from Harvard will leave its mark on even the most callous among us. We've been convinced that only the promise of success will buoy us up from the murky depths of the real world. Achievement got us here, achievement sustained our identities here, so why shouldn't achievement remain the hallmark of our post-Harvard lives? As long as people feel they ought to become a doctor, district attorney or corporate raider (i.e., "viable future donor") when they leave this ivory tower, you can be sure the development office will be smiling all the way to the bank...
...authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate manipulator trying to sleep her way out of Tibet. This is not a trite teen angst movie from Hollywood, but an examination of walking the fine line of womanhood to survive...
...authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate manipulator trying to sleep her way out of Tibet. This is not a trite teen angst movie from Hollywood, but an examination of walking the fine line of womanhood to survive...
...disastrous fate of her comically ill-conceived health care reform crusade sent her approval ratings into the gutter. Her much publicized role in the callous firings of the civil servants in the White House Travel Office didn't help. Halfway through President Clinton's first term, it seemed that Hillary might finally stop meddling where she didn't belong. She retreated from the spotlight, changed her haircut and wrote a book about children and villages. For a while, she was fairly benign...
Clinton and Starr together at last! There's not a dime's worth of difference between those two; they simply gave in to different temptations. Perhaps both should be censured for their callous unwillingness to consider the consequences of their actions. In any case, your cover could facilitate a rather satisfactory game of darts. JAMES A. BLAIR Cumberland...