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First, it will increase inequality. More people with similar incomes will pay different taxes due to the increase in special-interest tax breaks. This will elicit suspicion among neighbors when the ones with the best accountants or tax lawyers pay the smaller...
Lemmon continued to prove his ability to elicit praise in all facets of entertainment, becoming the only best actor winner at the Cannes Film Festival to direct another performer to the same nomination, with his work with Matthau in Kotch...
Shouted slogans elicit reactions of disgust--not exactly the best image for a group trying to foster social change. So as I walked in the other direction from the demonstration, I wondered why those protesting were opting to spend part of their busy Harvard lives standing around screaming. If Harvard were somehow blatantly ignoring the facts of the diversity situation by aggressively and repeatedly under-hiring minorities, then maybe then their sore throats would be justified. Instead, the diversity coalition threw away its potentially great influence...
...cozy home in upstate New York. Why was I suddenly checking the window locks and drawing the curtains flush with window frames? Why did the rustling of trees against the back door make me stand at attention? Is this the response shows like "Cops" really hope to elicit out here in sleepy TV land...
...were prepared entirely independently and with different sources of input, they both came to the conclusion that Harvard students need to know more about quantitative methods. This is not such an unreasonable conclusion given the current tilt in the Core toward the humanities, but one that is likely to elicit a negative reaction from many undergraduates. This is because most people simply do not like math. To a majority of the population (even at Harvard), the word can prompt feelings of terror, fear and even disgust. Indeed, it is a disturbing national trend that ignorance of mathematics is not seen...