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...Burned House, have become a kind of ghost town from which they can't--and don't necessarily want-to escape. God isn't exactly dead, but He seems to be on permanent leave. One is reminded of Geoffrey Hill's pithy "Ovid in the Third Reich": "God is distant, difficult/Things happen...
...intent is that in the not too distant future when people ask 'where should we go to see the best of educational technology?,' it will he HBS," he added. "A Harvard MBA will mean unparalleled fluency in business technology...
...traditionally been very distant from the University, but Clark hopes to "make the river less of a barrier...
...easy for Americans to project their own problems onto some distant Other, in this case the perennially "exotic" Orient. The press gushed over Hillary Clinton's "courage" in denouncing Chinese violations of women's rights. But what risk was she facing, other than, perhaps, a curtailment of room service in her Beijing hotel? The politically risky--and truly courageous--thing would have been for Hillary to follow up her criticisms of China with some heartfelt reflections on the situation of women in America, herself included. She might have admitted she comes from the only industrialized nation that has refused...
...their life. Jennifer Curry, Miss Iowa, started when she was nine, was crowned Miss Iowa National Teenager and competed to be America's Miss Charm. Girls get the Miss America bug for all sorts of reasons: self-improvement, blond ambition, because it's there. In the pursuit of distant goals, kids can be wonderfully stubborn: some forge themselves into Olympic figure skaters, others into masters of the 18-ft. jump shot. The pageant hopeful may have this doggedness. She can't get prettier, but she can hone her talent, polish her poise. By the time she makes...