Word: gainful
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...evaluate future actions. I was disturbed, however, that none of the experts you gathered weighed the cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested them in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What about investments in education and port security and in shoring up Social Security? I am no expert, but it would be nice to hear those issues debated by those...
...study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence on joint concentrations disallowed the pursuit of two fields in separation. What is important is not the fields in themselves but the perspective we gain from them (with multidisciplinary exposure simply meaning broader perspective), and so, under the old structure, joint concentrators were forced to make connections between their interests. Now, by shifting the emphasis from gaining perspective to gaining compartmentalized sets of knowledge, secondary fields will narrow a student’s intellect...
...Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to have been written during the same time—and in the place—that Jesus lived. Bedouin shephards cut the scrolls up into pieces and sold them separately in cigar boxes for higher monetary gain, according to King...
...coffee in the frustratingly intermission-free two and a half hours of the show, I was also able to do some valuable fashion reconnaissance work on the Amherst population.It is always good, my young friends, to compare Harvard fashion with other schools’ fashion in order to gain accurate perspective on Harvard’s particular wretchedness. It shows us what we must work on, but can also—on rare occasion—make us feel smug in our hearts.I came expecting to see the detritus of fashion worn by the types of Dave Matthews adherents...
...those folks ain’t okay. The most tolerant piece of legislation being considered in Congress—proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.)—would help some undocumented workers gain legal status. But the bill would also slap immigrants with a $2,000 fine, a significant sacrifice for families struggling to make ends meet, especially if they are supporting family members back in their country of origin.Don’t get me wrong. Immigration is a difficult issue...