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...risk--indeed the certainty--exists that at least a few of them will fail. But with their parents standing watchfully by, they need to be allowed to try. The more chances kids take, the greater the odds they will come up winners--and the chips they collect if they do can be priceless...
...tangible issues of student life. Indeed, the most well-known idea generated by the Ivy Council was the failed Census 2000 of Fentrice D. Driskell ’01 and John A. Burton ’01, an endeavor known more for the information it didn’t collect than for what it did. With this latest mishap, the Ivy Council has proven to be not only incapable of living up to its goal of fostering productive dialogue between Ivy League schools but also has shown itself to be a major financial drain as well...
...living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were slave owners." Looking at the issue from another angle, a Texas reader judged, "I don't imagine Southerners could collect reparations for the property the Yankees took during the war, and we shouldn't try. Since all of us, including African Americans, are better off now, let's get on with our lives and stop whipping a dead horse...
...risk - indeed the certainty - exists that at least a few of them will fail. But with their parents standing watchfully by, they need to be allowed to try. The more chances kids take, the greater the odds they will come up winners - and the chips they collect if they do can be priceless...
...That impression may be accurate. The New York Times reported Friday that 668,018 delinquent taxpayers (up from 98 in 1998) have had their cases sent to an inactive file since the new-look IRS decided in June 1999 not to try to collect their debts. Cost, for 1999 alone: $2.5 billion...