Word: cutthroat
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...begin with, Harvard has been overall unsuccessful in its attempts to provide a liberal-arts education. The burden of unexciting, core survey courses combined with fairly strict and rigorous concentration requirements provide for very little room to truly experiment. On top of this, the cutthroat environment around letter grades and GPA, which is perhaps unwittingly fostered by departments, the administration, and the Office of Career Services, ensures that even if we do test uncharted waters, we won’t really have the courage to do anything with it. Our hands are full—or at least...
...less offal, especially in their hamburgers. They have more offal than they can handle; what they want are some of the prime rib, tenderloin and lamb racks that urban gastronomes are so over. The red state-blue state dichotomy has been laughably overdrawn, but the difference between the cutthroat race to the bottom in the fast-food business and the high-end preoccupations with cooking offal and arranging entrees with tweezers could hardly be more apparent. You don't need a trade publication's special report to see it. As gastropubs multiply in big cities, Burger King is boasting...
...Hohenlohe is a talented skier who has somehow met the Olympic qualifying standards at 51 - and it was infinitely easier for him to do that as an athlete from Mexico where no one skis, than from Austria, where the sport is a national obsession and the competition is cutthroat. Is von Hohenlohe simply a rich heir toying around the Alps, and using a poor country to reach the Olympics? "In life you have a couple of opportunities and openings," the prince argues. "And one of them was that I was born in Mexico. Sure, I used it to my favor...
...student in the U.S. In the Indian education system your sense of achievement is intertwined with your academic performance. Exams are usually out of a 100 points, and the students who get the highest percentage points get into the best colleges. With an ever-increasing population, competition is cutthroat. In the U.S., college applications are all about differentiating yourself with your extracurriculars while maintaining a high academic standard. However, being a successful Indian student means having impeccable academics, period...
Harvard Law School conjures many images for the outsider: Obama, Elle Woods, and the cutthroat student body. But last Saturday night, the nation’s best and brightest students of the law abandoned their competitiveness for togetherness and a more “tacky” image than one would imagine...