Word: highers
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...clearly far from sophisticated Cambridge. I was struck by two quotes about ROTC in Janet Tassel's "The 30 Years War: Cultural conservatives struggle with the Harvard they love." The first was from Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00: "ROTC being diminished on campuses means that the higher level officials in the military come from the academies or southern schools; as a result there isn't that liberalizing force in the military." The second is from Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington: "I absolutely favored the retention of ROTC, and I still think it should be here...
Even so, better fed and more scientifically conditioned than any previous generation, today's senior athletes are stretching their bodies' performance beyond what was once thought possible. Some are even winning phantom races against young champions of the past, swimming and running faster, jumping higher and farther than Olympic medal winners in their prime early in the century. One bettered Johnny Weissmuller, who went on to become Hollywood's most famous Tarzan (see chart...
...part, a symptom of American cultural change. The transition, as of 1999, is incomplete. Old Thinking still has plenty of adherents. New Thinking may not prove to be entirely a story of virtue triumphant over death-peddling greed; it may instead merely introduce new forms of consumer taxation (higher cigarette prices) and lawyer enrichment, while people go on smoking and dying as before...
There were eight of us aboard the 150-ft. Gulf Majesty, pulling a loaded barge about 300 miles outside Jacksonville, Fla., our home port, heading to San Juan, Puerto Rico. We'd been at sea since Saturday, and we were just trying to avoid the storm. Our higher-ups told us to head north and take the long way around...
...Baumohl. Immigrant workers, such as the factory employees who recently launched a campaign against conditions in the New York City factory that makes super-trendy Kate Spade handbags, would be far less likely to have to work for substandard wages in the U.S. if salaries in other countries were higher. "Cheap foreign manufacturing makes U.S. labor unions very nervous," says Baumohl. "The labor leaders have a vested interest in seeing better wages around the world, because that eventually translates into a level playing field, with fewer jobs leaving the U.S." Then at least Kathie Lee won't have to fork...