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...with screams, it was time for the mundanities of survival as students and teachers alike took a day out of summer Tuesday to pick up the things they had left behind. Backpacks, long since checked for pipe bombs, still lay in front of lockers; car keys still sat in desk drawers. Almost everyone had something to come back for, and all of them had something to see and remember: the closet where they had hidden, the classroom where they had huddled and prayed, the parking lot where it all began. The library where it ended...
What's more, common courtesy (not mowing down first-years in the last sprint to the reserve desk) and manners (letting mounds of dining hall food, trays and silverware decay at the foot of the entryway) seem to have been forgotten...
What's more, common courtesy (not mowing down first-years in the last sprint to the reserve desk) and manners (letting mounds of dining hall food, trays and silverware decay at the foot of the entryway) seem to have been forgotten...
With Rubin's resignation and Summers' ascension, the question arises: To what extent did Rubin's personal strengths make possible the enlarging of the Treasury Secretary's mission? The former Goldman Sachs partner spent years as head of the firm's arbitrage desk, a position in which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely...
...page editor. She was canny enough to assign me only those editorials that required no thought or knowledge; when a golfer in Maryland murdered a goose that had interfered with his game, the piece was my meat. I wrote the goose editorial on deadline, and rushing past Meg's desk, I shouted, "What should I call this?" Without looking up, she shot back, "'Honk If You Think He's Guilty...