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...These are problems previous administrations have failed to solve, and problems that stand before you today. President Faust. You inherit a college in dire need of change...
Although straits are not as dire as some students are expecting, career advisers reported an increase in pressure on students to accept offers early, even though universities set mandatory deadlines for employers that push back the date when students have to decide...
...until all citizens begin to impress upon the candidates the dire urgency with which so many issues today need to be truthfully acknowledged and resolved, the candidates will continue to shy away from straight-talking, and go on seeking political success through equivocation and wordplay. If a fire is not lit beneath them, they will have no incentive to move to a higher political ground...
...successive reports, which grow more and more confident about the reality and the danger of climate change, is like seeing an image fall into focus. Drawing on the work of so many scientists, which must then be approved by national representatives, the IPCC tends to the conservative - so its dire conclusions are all the more authoritative and chilling. But global warming is global, and the very existence of an impartial IPCC, in the face of competing national agendas, should give us hope that we can tackle climate change with the same spirit of international objectivity...
Following the University’s decision to bust the booze budget, FM figured that some socially imprisoned youngsters would be in dire need of a cheap new way to get that Friday night buzz. Under these lock-down conditions, we thought it would be appropriate to take a cue from real inmates and present the official recipe for “Harvard Hooch,” FM’s version of prison rotgut. Sure, it might taste like sewage, but who cares? It’s free. You can get all the ingredients you need right...