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...main topic of discussion at the convention is the drafting of a new constitution, which the government has said will later be followed by general elections. Among the delegates, there are ethnic leaders who are legitimately eager to discuss such lofty matters, but it's hard to be optimistic about the quality of the debate. Some of those present are members of insurgent groups that have reached cease-fire agreements with Rangoon and are primarily concerned with safeguarding their own interests, which include expanding their business empires and strengthening their militias. They have scant interest in challenging the status...
With the Korean War well underway in their first year at Harvard, members of the Class of ’54 were more eager than ever to participate in the ROTC—either because of a sincere interest in armed service training, or as a chance to avoid the draft...
...case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized, tax increases. He didn't shrink the size of the government (Bill Clinton was the only recent President to do that). Reagan...
...faculty have been particularly eager to incorporate undergraduates into their labs and research programs,” Harriman wrote...
...Eager to see if the literary arts “magazine about sex” stacked up to anything more than smut, I had a copy picked up from H Bomb’s release party on Monday night. I shouldn’t say I was pleasantly surprised—I found the feature articles dull, the poetry overwrought and the interviews middling. But the co-founders’ glib pronouncement on the editor’s note that the magazine “Isn’t quite what you expected, is it?” holds true...