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...tough to decide who is potentially more dangerous for the American public to elect: the person devoid of willingness to compromise or the person devoid of principles. Electing either an ideologue or a weathervane can be a very precarious proposition for voters. Maralee Schwartz, the former national political editor of the Washington Post and current fellow at the Institute of Politics, told me, “Voters are risk-averse this election.” She compares 2008 to 1992, except that while people back then were willing to take a risk on a young Arkansas governor named Bill...
Once passed—and we are sure that a bill so nobly conceived and devoid of partisan motivation will pass—Harvard could take several steps to regain its funding. The installation of large American flags on all University buildings, cars, trees, personnel, students, and existing American flags would make a good start. Rumors that the College red phones were removed to make way for red-white-and-blue phones are heartening, and we hope they are true...
...woefully behind we are on all sartorial issues.It wasn’t very hard to find a party at Brown. Unlike at Harvard, where hunting for a party involves Edith Wharton-esque social climbing and tolerance of complete female subjugation, parties at Brown seem readily available and devoid of humiliating questioning about one’s pedigree.I found a party in a dilapidated Victorian building where obscure rap was blaring from every available window. A bunch of kids were assembled outside, smoking what seemed to be expensive European cigarettes. One guy eventually approached my posse, to ask for a light...
...When I participated in the program in 2006, our class activities included visits to cultural centers, historic parts of the city, and even to a non-governmental organization that works with children from impoverished neighborhoods of Rio’s Zona Norte. In no way was the program "devoid of the striking diversity so emblematic...
...almost a full year’s rent in Brazil’s cidade maravilhosa. Students are shuffled into Pontífica Universidade Católica (PUC), Rio’s private university that caters to the city’s affluent population, meaning that the program is often devoid of the striking diversity so emblematic...