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...fair, everyone procrastinates to some degree. None of us start our assignments the day we receive them, and few of us have a strong enough work ethic to forgo everything in the name of papers and exams. But such examples are mere kid’s play for the exceptional procrastinators among us, who have perfected the particular lifestyle and who swear by its efficiency and success rate...
...Anakin of Clones is an attractive fellow, full of a young man's roiling contradictions. He respects the Jedi ethic while squirming to elude its strictures; he loves both his faraway mother and the royal temptation at his side; he does engage in a revenge massacre but feels remorse for it; he is disarming and, finally, literally disarmed. By the end of Clones, Anakin is still a decent, stalwart gent, light-years removed from the malefic Vader...
...center of the hard-line ethic is a strong belief that all conflicts can fit neatly into the war between Us and Them, freedom and tyranny, good and evil. The hard-liners believe that U.S. foreign policy proceeds from straightforward choices between absolutes: trust the nations that work with you; treat everyone else as a potential adversary. The hard-liners' hero is Ronald Reagan, who labeled the former Soviet Union the "evil empire." Reagan, however, rarely let his rhetoric get in the way of pragmatic foreign policy. And Bush is now showing signs of similar flexibility...
...better account of our selves than our classes are that, stepping back, it seems odd that anyone would attempt to define so much of our character by sheer academic performance. What, exactly, can you tell about a person with a 15.0 GPA? That they have a strong work ethic and an uncanny ability to absorb facts...
...Chris applies the same work ethic to coaching as he did competing, he will become an outstanding college football coach,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...