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...ample resources would make it a competitive player in the market. It has one of the best human resource divisions in the world, in the form of its admissions office, and a robust physical infrastructure. Each office--I mean dorm room--is equipped with a phone line, a desk, and a speedy T1 LAN connection. What more could a budding capitalist...
...Shuffle tensely towards the reference desk, with mind racing. Fumble for a way to tactfully request the raunchiest readings that Widener has to offer...
This raises a haunting question for Bush, one that echoes the big question raised about his dad. The old man never wanted to do very much as President so much as he just wanted to be President, to sit behind that big desk and make the hard calls. George Bush never promised to be an activist in the Oval Office; he just promised to keep the ship in the channel. "W," whose public agenda is not much thicker than his father's, is essentially promising the same thing, but his private agenda is more pressing. Bush's father was worried...
...Josh Edelman '00 sees the Student Playwrights Project as the core force behind his play. "Without the SPP, [my play] would have stayed in my desk drawer. I could never get the people, the resources and the money together to do a full-scale production of this script without a lot of work on my part, and it's great to know that there's a way this play can happen without all that fuss," he explains. Edelman's drama, Barbary, which he describes as a "meditation on the violence, loneliness and emptiness of much of American society," will...
Pity the State Department's China desk at election time - particularly when both Taiwan and the U.S. are going to the polls and politicians on all three sides of the dispute start rattling their sabers. A powerful bloc of U.S. senators from both sides of the aisle, led by Delaware Republican William Roth and New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, warned the Clinton administration Wednesday that the trade pact facilitating China's entry into the World Trade Organization is in jeopardy following Beijing's renewed threats to invade Taiwan...