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...they can spend what remains of the campaign season talking about issues that play to their strengths, such as Social Security, corporate corruption and providing prescription-drug coverage under Medicare. The day after his dramatic Senate-floor speech, Daschle toted a chart into his daily briefing showing increasingly dire unemployment numbers...
...consequences of many students’ solipsistic desire to use college as nothing more than four years of resume building en route to Harvard Medical School or Goldman Sachs are more dire than might be immediately apparent. By refusing to allow themselves to let up, students are both failing to receive the maximum value from their education and may be imperilling their well-being. Provost Steven E. Hyman, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said that from a young age simply putting pressure on oneself to have a strong application for Harvard often “destroyed...
...allow early decision candidates to file simultaneous early action applications, it sent barely a ripple through the admissions world and none whatsoever in the national media—the decisive NACAC conference took place just one week after the Sept. 11 attacks and was weakly attended. But it had dire implications for the early decision system. Theoretically, early decision schools should have nothing to lose if their candidates also apply early action, since students are bound to their early decision school no matter what happens with their other applications. But the policy change undermined early decision’s primary...
Every time he walks up the stairs to the second-story record store, he sees the empty space where a clothing store used to be located and his mind jumps to the College’s dire need of space...
...that the vast majority of the “have-nots,” like those in non-Arab Africa, East and South Asia, and South America, have no special desire to blow us up), Kilfoyle declares that Europeans “look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst [the American] administration appears set on a unilateral approach...” He doesn’t go on to say exactly why this is a problem, but one guesses he doesn’t mean it as a compliment...