Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't go to classes because at good colleges, I figure they'll all be relatively good," James J. Pasquariello '01 said. "There are so many classes that basing school choice on attending a few of them isn't a good idea...
...compete in the primary, but he has been a vociferous critic of the campaign-finance system. He hoped the issue would launch a tide of grass-roots reform--a tide he could ride--but that didn't happen. He toyed with starting a third party but rejected the idea as costly and impractical. So if he runs, he must raise pots of cash without looking hypocritical. Asked whether he would refuse soft money and PAC donations, he changed the subject. "Too early," he said. "I'm not a candidate...
...wild party thrown by his teammate Dave DeBusschere. Bradley, a teetotaler, was dressed as a priest. As DeBusschere later wrote, "Every now and then our future President tapped a guest on the back and said, 'Excuse me, but I'm ready to take your confession.'" It was Bradley's idea of a practical joke. Today, with his indictment of a "paralyzed and polarized" system in the thrall of money and pollsters, Bradley is again the priest at the party. But this time he's not kidding, and the party is the Democratic one. Is it ready for its confession...
...every 4 public schools in the country. In some areas the tally is much higher: evangelicals in Minneapolis-St. Paul claim that the vast majority of high schools in the Twin Cities region have a Christian group. Says Benny Proffitt, a Southern Baptist youth-club planter: "We had no idea in the early '90s that the response would be so great. We believe that if we are to see America's young people come to Christ and America turn around, it's going to happen through our schools, not our churches." Once a religious scorched-earth zone, the schoolyard...
Students and administrators alike had no idea why we don't observe Patriot's Day. I spoke with a number of deans to ask why Harvard, unlike practically every university in the state, did not observe the state holiday. They called the question "interesting" and one was "surprised" to find Harvard does not take this chance to celebrate. Some seemed vague on what Patriot's Day even was--maybe they too were asking what Patriot's Day was when they put me on hold...