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When reporters questioned her decision to serve in her husband's place, she says, "I told them that some people spent a lifetime underestimating my husband to their detriment. I suggest they not do it with me." She's waiting for committee assignments before choosing her issues but says she will run again in 2002 only if "I've made a difference. I'm not just here to warm a seat...
First came vague threats. "Do not become involved in campus politics to your detriment," one professor warned in her written comments on my paper, the warning as prominent as the grade. Then the threats became explicit. If my colleagues and I didn't stop our union drive for graduate-student teachers, one professor informed me, jabbing her finger at me furiously, she would ensure that none of us ever taught. Some of my fellow graduate students received more than threats; the dean's letter of recommendation for a woman applying for professorships explained that her union activity made...
...fire. A crowd of Cairo students looking to vent its rage against U.S. support for Israel won't get within a mile of Washington's heavily fortified embassy, but it won't have much trouble finding an American fast-food outlet - as KFC discovered to its detriment last month. And with some 39 McDonald's outlets now operating in Egypt, it's hardly surprising that Middle Eastern franchise owners are developing seemingly unorthodox marketing tactics...
What spurred Harris' political career has provided it with a dramatic, perhaps historic turning point--to either her benefit or her detriment. She bounded onto George W. Bush's campaign as his hard-charging Florida co-chair. Watchdog groups objected when she used the secretary of state's office--and taxpayer money--to produce get-out-the-vote TV ads starring Bush boosters like General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Thus last week, when Harris unloaded decision after decision that appeared to be in lockstep with Bush strategy, cries of partisanship sprang up immediately. Harris, 43, insisted that her rulings were "independent...
...Class of 1877, argued that students should never be allowed to control their housing for the same shameful reason: "Large communities tend towards cliques based on similarity of origin and upon wealth. Great masses of unorganized young men...are prone to superficial currents of thought and interest, to the detriment of the personal intellectual process that ought to dominate mature men seeking higher education...