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...same) to ensure they develop the easy confidence, posh accent and useful contacts that will guarantee access to the top of British society. At least among many metropolitan commentators, that fed an anti?private school, anti-Eton mood for years. A lot of smart money during the Tory leadership contest in 2005 discounted 39-year-old David Cameron simply because he was an Old Etonian. He had to fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape a deprived childhood. Deputy Prime Minister...
...bogus choice, but if voters had to decide between letting a suspected terrorist run free, and sending him to a faraway place where a moral principle is violated in the hopes of getting information that might prevent a bombing, that's not much of a contest. This may explain why public reaction to the Marty report has been relatively muted. Despite Spain's prominent role in the report, for example, only one of its national newspapers put the story on Page One. In Germany, the World Cup trumps just about anything. That's too bad. It could be productive...
...place much value in "issue polls" with their phony contrasting platonic ideals. Whenever the contest involves a concrete candidate against concrete candidate, conservative issues seem to do pretty well...
...applicants to the College, each year more qualified than the last. We do recruit to the Faculty so many of the world’s most notable scholars, who come here in unmatched numbers. Harvard’s prestige beyond Cambridge seems to grow, even in years when we contest, vocally and publicly, with each other about our own workings. Yet the broad attitude of students and faculty often seems one of edgy anxiety...
...when Jakus and Rose were freshmen, had the Harvard men even beaten Columbia since 1978.“That was a walkover,” says Kolombatovich of the Lions’ success in the once one-sided rivalry. “It wasn’t even a contest. [Brand] has taken that program and turned it around 180 degrees.”“To say the team has changed,” Austin says, “would be an understatement.”Harvard’s success starts and ends with Brand. An immigrant...