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...course, investors' nerves are based on the idea that a clear election winner would create the best conditions for tackling that treacherous shortfall. While it's a reasonable assumption, it's hardly foolproof. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has little credibility left when it comes to the economy following his stint as Britain's free-spending Finance Minister in the decade leading up to the financial crisis. And although the Conservatives have pledged immediate cuts to the deficit should they win, they're still light on detail. (See a Q&A with Gordon Brown...
...sudden concussion of a torpedo, compared to the slow grinding of an iceberg - would also be likelier to spark panic. Finally, there was the simple fact that everyone aboard the Lusitania was aware of what had happened to the Titanic just three years earlier and thus disabused of the idea that there was any such thing as a ship that was too grand to sink - their own included...
...have no idea what that priorities are of your center until you tell me,” he said...
...1960s hippie collective in Haight-Ashbury that shares the Diggers’ name: “We’re a little more institutional and stodgy than they, but it’s all the same idea: freedom and self-empowerment,” Lavin explained...
...same. Are we trying to sell a Hogwarts resemblance when we should be selling the Harvard reality? I don’t believe so. I suspect that we are so oft inclined to make these Hogwarts analogies while trying to convey some graspable idea of the Harvard experience; the Harry Potter imagery is easier to relay, since many prospective students can more easily imagine them. Likewise, it is not a college admissions strategy itself that should warrent criticism or praise, but the university-specific content—or lack of it—that...