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...McCain's drawback is that he brings to the ticket a state already solidly Republican (Arizona has not voted for a Democratic President since 1948). And his freewheeling style has sometimes cost him points with the campaign. Last week he had to apologize to Dole for leaking the details of the nominee's much awaited foreign-policy speech on the eve of its Thursday delivery, undercutting the public-relations drama of Dole's announcement that he supported extension of most-favored-nation trading status for China. "Loose cannon," growled a Dole official...
...Player magazine," says Rucker, who is great friends with Hootie's bassist and shares a house with him. "But he showed me this article the other day in that magazine where this guy does this whole Toad the Wet Sprocket review, and at the end he says the only drawback with Toad is that they toured with the worst band in the world--Hootie & the Blowfish. I mean, why do you have to go out of your way to bash us? I honestly believe that if we had sold 100,000 records, people would have nice things to say about...
Unlike Hanselman, however, Petitpas has no council experience. When asked about this potential drawback, Petitpas turns once again to his age and life experience...
...suggest we Harvard women are any more superior in character or ability to the women of other schools than are the men to their male counterparts. My point is merely that we women also list Harvard on our social resume, and yet ours is not an asset, but a drawback. While Harvard has been so kind as to extend its academic prestige to include our gender, it has not transformed this social stereotype...
...this gives a lot of responsibility to the the teachers. Unfortunately, this most likely would place gregarious students and students in smaller departments at an advantage. Those who are friendly with their instructors would obtain both more insightful recommendations and more attention to their academic difficulties. But this drawback results from the impersonality of a big university, not the pass-fail concept. Students get lost in the academic jungle under the current system...