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...alternative vocations for unemployed state nanny-ists? Perhaps designing special safety ladders. Mandating tricycle wheels. Compulsory vegetable-eating regimes? The sky—nay, too dangerous—the ground is the limit...
...boat that sacrifices seats off the start and loses ground in the first 1,000 is at the line, Harvard will endure a long and rainy Sunday at Lake Quinsigamond...
...competent students. He found that the extra time improved the grades of students already earning As and Bs, but that coursework done after reading period resulted in lowered grades for the lowly D and E earners. Munro concluded that “as Government 17a is concerned there is ground for the conclusion that the profitableness of the reading period is almost exactly proportioned to the quality of the student.”Time Abused?Munro was a little blunter than the average professor today, but his sentiments regarding the potential for reading period abuse have stuck around. Over...
...neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” (History)“Locke is a transitional figure.” (Philosophy)“Marx turned Hegel upside down.” (General Education)“Any theory of underconsumption and purchasing power must be grounded in the psychology of the people.” (Economics)“Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration.” (Music)“Shaw’s heroes are men of moral passion.” (English)“Differentiation and integration are fundamental...
...Bush used his call for border security to appease those conservatives. But he also tried to cast himself as a reasonable centrist, fighting for what he called a "rational middle ground" between massive amnesty and rounding up more than 10 million illegal immigrants and deporting them. Neither idea is really on the table. (Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, jokes that Republicans had enough trouble moving 250,000 New Orleanians who wanted to be evacuated. "And we knew where they were," she gibes.) But Bush's attempt to thread the needle-coming up with a bill that's tough enough...