Word: idea
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Pity the poor Republicans. They're doing it to themselves again. On Wednesday, with a flourish of vows from House hardhead Tom DeLay and a banner reading "Stop Robbing Social Security," the GOP launched a $2 million nationwide advertising campaign called "Stop the Raid." It's their latest big idea to finally win a budget fight with Bill Clinton: Accuse Clinton and the Democrats, over and over, of planning to raid the pension system's trust funds to pay for Big Government spending programs. With that $792 billion tax cut languishing on a far-back burner, "Stop the Raid...
...have the good fortune to live with two women whose idea of having fun is making up complicated step routines on the T platform while waiting for the inbound train. That being said, they get a little frustrated when it takes me a slow transfer at Park Street to learn five consecutive moves. They tell me that I should stick with writing. After all, you don't have to move your feet much to do that...
...this is not to say that this is a good idea, especially if you plan on graduating. What will your parents say when you tell them, "Well, I really wanted to do CityStep, so now I have to devote eight hours a day to learning all the moves, which really doesn't leave much time for classes." Chances are, they won't be too pleased...
...latest-possible-moment arrival of the course catalog is caused in part by an inability of the Faculty to commit and commit early enough to their courses for the following year. By not even providing the titles early enough, students have no idea what classes actually will be offered in the fall. I was pleased to see that the Web course catalog I dutifully downloaded in August had Web links for every course--though, despite the cheery "syllabus" icon on the second page, the overwhelming majority led nowhere. In my experience professors sometimes don't even have a syllabus completed...
...Despite the suspicion that his organization's aid hasn't always escaped the web of corruption, IMF president Michel Camdessus insisted Tuesday that the international lending organization was duty bound to continue helping Russia through thick and thin. Even if that were true, though, it might be a better idea to keep them guessing...