Word: falling
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There was no mood change in the country, only one in the narrow political calculations of its major political players: a Republican Congress with a slim majority desperate to play to the activists who will turn out in the fall, a White House too distracted and declawed by scandal to fight and an electorate too content to complain much...
...second-largest investor, with a 13% stake. The largest is activist money manager Michael Price, who controls 17%. As a measure of how quickly Dunlap's career unraveled, Price only two weeks earlier had publicly, emphatically supported Dunlap. But he became as willing as anyone for the ax to fall...
...culture of pressure--and shame--dominates the educational and professional ladders. The consequence of a fall from grace can be suicide, seen not as the ultimate tragedy but as an understandable or inevitable decision if linked to recent failure. Even prior to the news of Asia's financial crisis, the number of white-collar suicides was quite high. According to the National Police Agency, suicides in Japan in 1996 totaled about 23,000, more than double the number of traffic fatalities. Meanwhile, the reluctance to admit there are indeed problems has seeped onto the economic bargaining table in the most...
...ivory tower, the near 80 percent yield for the class of 2002 seemed to put the issue to rest. With a record-high yield, the argument seems to go, our financial aid policy does not need to change. But there is a fundamental flaw to this argument. Students who fall into the second and especially the third financial aid categories may simply decide, like my friends, that the cost of a Harvard education outweighs its benefits and may not even apply. However, while the middle and working class applicants may drop, the upper-class applicants could continue at the same...
...Spielberg did give us Empire of the Sun, and Bertolucci made The Last Emperor. But these fall just a little short because they are movies from the inside out; they understand. The excitement of China comes from the puzzlement, from the head-scratching wonder of an outsider to whom China is a great blood-oiled machine with no rules...