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...help our military eradicate terrorist groups of global reach. It devotes $38 billion to improve homeland security, virtually doubling the amount spent this year. Furthermore, it sets aside over $80 billion this year to stimulate our economy. While there have been signs of recovery, our President is not content to sit and wait while thousands are jobless...
...chart the word’s strange and troubling history. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a word “is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,” but “the skin of a living thought [that] may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” Kennedy’s book aims to study these circumstances by following the N-word from its etymological roots, to its shifting definition in the legal system, to its contemporary manifestations in movies...
...talked to over 100 people and most of their questions were content related, not about the salary,” Robinson said...
Other deans have wielded comparable authority, but few have emerged seeming as irreplaceable. Knowles’ particular leadership style, in which he acted as puppeteer for loyal lieutenants and committees, has achieved the nearly unthinkable in FAS—most professors are too content with Knowles’ achievements to suggest alternative leadership...
However, most who attend Harvard and other such places are not content to simply carve their names into walls. Rather, we seek to etch our existences into time itself through the careers we choose. When someone says, “I am a doctor,” it is more than a statement about the way he makes a living. His career is the embodiment of his individuality. It is the medium through which he expresses himself to others and impresses himself on the world...