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...case, Harvard students shouldn't feel complacent just because we've got New Haven licked. We've got the rest of the Ivy League to conquer, not to mention the rest of the world. We need to expand our minds, broaden our horizons, think in new ways just like the Core taught...
...often that Washington inspires American business leaders to rise from their seats and dream out loud about the economic frontiers that suits and pols can conquer together. But the prospect that Congress was coming closer last week to approving the new global trade treaty -- one of the most far-reaching acts of economic legislation in U.S. history -- had the chief economist for one of the nation's biggest food exporters talking the language of Manifest Destiny. "We're going to grow more grain. We're going to grow more beef. We're going to be slaughtering more hogs...
...book The Anxiety of Influence (1973) and has modified somewhat in the interim. This presupposition, as so much in Bloom's criticism, is difficult to state succinctly. For openers, writers who wish to be "strong," that is, to produce works worthy of the Canon, must first confront and somehow conquer the power of "strong" writers who preceded them: "Any strong literary work creatively misreads and therefore misinterprets a precursor text or texts." What others simply regard as literary imitation Bloom recasts as Darwinian or Freudian struggles for dominance: "Tradition is not only a handing-down or process of benign transmission...
Humanity once had the hubris to think it could control or even conquer all these microbes. But anyone who reads today's headlines knows how vain that hope turned out to be. New scourges are emerging -- AIDS is not the only one -- and older diseases like tuberculosis are rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant to antibiotics, the main weapon in the doctor's arsenal. The danger is greatest, of course, in the underdeveloped world, where epidemics of cholera, dysentery and malaria are spawned by war, poverty, overcrowding and poor sanitation. But the microbial world knows no boundaries...
That stubbornness has forced the huge company, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, to think small. In a deal that reflected the determination of Wal- Mart to conquer all 50 states, the firm last week agreed to build a sharply scaled-back outlet near the downtown area of St. Johnsbury (pop. 8,000) as the price of admission to Vermont. Not that it will be a mere boutique. At 75,000 sq. ft., the store will dominate the town's landscape, yet it will still be modest by comparison with the discount palaces of 120,000 sq. ft. that Wal- Mart...