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...staples in bulk when they're on sale. Not staple-gun staples -- staples! Like shaving cream and sweat socks. Consider a family that buys one bottle of wine each week. With the 10% discount many stores offer on wine by the case, they would be saving 10% every 12 weeks -- more than 40% a year, tax free and largely risk free. (One risk: that having so much wine around would lead to increased consumption. This is less a consideration with sweat socks...
...discount the contributions of women in the public sphere just because historically women have been in the private sphere is to repeat some of the mistakes of history," said Holly K. Tabor '94, a coordinator of the campus magazine Lighthouse, which focuses on women's issues...
...They are saying that General Powell's presence acts as an affront to homosexuals more than it does as a source of pride and admiration especially, but not exclusively, for Blacks at Harvard. Well, that's an impossible claim to make. Furthermore, I consider it an egregious error to discount every positive contribution a man has made because one disagrees with his position on a single issue...
Could I, as a Black man, discount everything Thomas Jefferson ever accomplished because he owned slaves? Of course not. That type of blanket dismissal would prevent me from appreciating one of the greatest figures in history. It is no more accurate to call Powell a propagator of "anti-humanist rhetoric" than it is to call Jefferson nothing more than a famous slaveowner...
...think a scoring adjustment would be fair to other students," Chang said. Still, he said, several students plan to write to ETS requesting the notation and a discount for those students who want to re-take the test, for which ETS charges...