Word: focusing
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...money. After that, a yawning gap between benefits and income stretches as far as an actuary's eye can see. This long-term gap is what President George W. Bush was trying to address with his failed plans to partly privatize Social Security. It's been the focus of almost all recent debate about the program...
...assigned undergraduate forum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) political issues. Although the BGLTSA attempts to straddle its two roles, the social and the political, it has failed to do justice to either. The university needs a new way of addressing LGBT political issues, because they deserve more focused attention from Harvard undergraduates than the current organization can provide.The main reason that the BGLTSA is an ineffective political organization is that its primary job is to foster a social community. Political issues are an ancillary concern. Although the BGLTSA has a political chair, when you take into consideration that...
...When the 16-year-old Bhutto began at Harvard, she had her eyes on a degree in psychology and did not seem interested in making politics her academic focus, said Anne Fadiman ’74, one of Bhutto’s friends. But Bhutto’s focus quickly shifted to government; she wrote a senior thesis on the origins of Pakistan, Fadiman said...
...Something got galvanized in her while she was at Harvard,” Fadiman said. “The longer she spent away, the stronger her focus on Pakistan became...
...demands it. But just before I launched into that same tirade about bib overalls that is bouncing around Bill Maher’s head at this very moment, I caught myself. Someone has to have first look at this slippery field of candidates, to be the testing ground and focus group to their gladhanding and hyper-scripted stump speeches. Meanwhile, so many of our states lack the economic or cultural grandeur of California or New York and become little more than whistle-stops in the general election. This is, of course, the problem to which the Electoral College...