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...receive the grades we do receive because of Harvard's beneficence, but earn our grades in spite of the rampant racism that is nurtured in the classroom by Eurocentric, white supremacist-informed beliefs as those expressed by Mansfield. In many cases, Black students have to work harder and expend more than average effort just to earn average grades from teaching fellows and professors who lack the ability to fairly evaluate our performance...
...piscine predators. According to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, when pike are placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the deep -- at least for a while...
Before he launched his famous first 100 days, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed that "the country demands bold, persistent experimentation." He understood that the best way to protect the mandate he had won was to expend his political capital, to treat his popularity as a tool for governing rather than as an asset to be hoarded until the next election. He was re-elected three ; times. George Bush is living proof that the opposite approach leads to failure...
...convinced that it was the best school in the country, and I now realize that I waste an opportunity every time I shrink from its challenges. It sounds so elementary and trite, but I often forget that I owe the world nothing more than my effort. If I expend myself and do not "measure up," then perhaps I am misdirecting my energy. Perhaps I need to look somewhere else...
...energy Democrats usually expend fighting with one another went into a big-budget Hollywood production, complete with filmed biographies by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creators of TV's Designing Women and Evening Shade. One of the highlights was a 1963 film clip showing John Kennedy shaking hands in the Rose Garden with the 16-year-old Clinton, a priceless piece of celluloid that Clinton aide Frank Greer dug out of the Kennedy Library...