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...Cornell had become the central place where black power entered the universities for the first time. There was a weak president eager to be on the good side of a hot new thing, admitting great numbers of black students, no matter what their preparation. Of course, it was very hard on those kids. It was much harder to defend institutions that people saw as bourgeois. People just didn't feel good about them. It was more important to be engaged and committed. At places like Cornell, people just didn't believe in very much any longer. Free discussion...
...core of its industry. While that pace may not be sustainable - growth is expected to fall to about 6.5% this year - Ukraine continues to run up sizable trade surpluses. Some big consumer-goods firms, including the Swiss food giant Nestlé, already have plants in the country and are eager to build up their market share. But compared to its neighbors, Ukraine remains relatively poor and deprived of investment. Measured by per-capita gross domestic product, Ukraine's 48 million inhabitants have just one-fifth the wealth of Poland's 38 million. And because Ukraine was late in starting...
...become her husband, she ended up turning down everyone and leaving the show alone. In a live broadcast in front of a booing, mostly female studio audience and more than 11 million TV viewers, after a buildup in which she spent six weeks whittling down a pool of 25 eager suitors, Jen turned down the last, bewildered contender. Art-gallery director Jerry Ferris, 29, was so smitten with her that he had penned the words to a love song that ABC played on the show right before Jen gave him the ax. Harsh...
...children at the primary school could improve the health of the kids, the quality of education and the attendance at school. Expanded vocational training for the students could teach them the skills of modern farming, computer literacy, basic infrastructure maintenance and carpentry. The village is ready and eager to be empowered by increased information and technical knowledge...
Snow is on the ground, and the sounds of rolling suitcases on cobblestones are floating through the air. Eager third-year students sit salivating in their rooms, awaiting the inevitable trips to the North End, or just a fine Square eatery, with their parents. As the Charles Hotel fills up with Baby Boomers, our parents are surely wondering exactly what has happened to their gen-Y’ers during the last three years. This weekend is their chance to view us in our natural habitats, to experience what being a Harvard student is really like. In anticipation of this...