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...double-edged sword--sometimes it is entirely justified (as when directed against the shameless torture-enabler Dick Cheney, who persists in fouling our public airwaves). Impatience, though, is a subtler problem, and it is chronic in the mass media. Indeed, it comes with the territory. There are columns to fill, commentaries to spew even when a new Administration has just begun its work and it is way too early to make definitive judgments about its policies. The worst judgments I've made as a journalist were the result of impatience. In early 1993--a moment not unlike this...
...stuff we fill our lives with, it isn't necessary. It's so far from like, "I buy food for my kids and we eat it and we don't freeze in the winter." It's so far from that. Part of me feels like if people go back to basics they'll start to see that. You have a job and then you don't even make enough for the s--- you even own. You don't even get the pride of saying I have this job and because of it I have this car. I have this...
...idea to fill Adams Art Space with thousands of balloons was conceived by Will M. Skinner ’09, who was doing a handstand amidst the balloons when I approached him. Wading through the chest-high sea of balloons, I asked him what had inspired the project. Skinner, a sprightly Adams House senior with a puckish smile, told me, “I have a lot of free time on my hands...
Front-end loaders and backhoes roll through the 92-acre housing development, up to 14 hours a day six days a week, tossing dirt into big piles that are then raked by hand. Hampering their job is 15 ft. of fill dirt that was spread across the uneven terrain by the developers to bring it up to subdivision standards, probably a couple of years...
...families who in recent years coughed up extravagant sums for private tutoring. Laura Wilson, founder of WilsonDailyPrep, based in wealthy Chappaqua, N.Y., says she regularly gets calls from parents who had signed their children up for private tutoring but are now hoping to scale back. Many are choosing to fill in the gaps through the online program Wilson launched in October, which already boasts 470 students. Parents are also turning to Academic Approach, which has ramped up its online program within the last year: "They're coming back for Child No. 2 and now saying, rather than work with that...