Word: ideas
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Many students come to Harvard precisely so they can escape the pull of fraternities as a compelling option on Friday and Saturday nights. They disliked fraternities' exclusivity and undue emphasis on alcohol and partying. They liked the idea that president A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, had of creating small colleges within the college, complete with intellectual and social lives of their own. Once at Harvard, they enjoyed the camaraderie their house provided. But now, they might as well have gone to Cornell or U. Penn...
...their part, the Riady family may have been seeking what most Asian businessmen want when they give money to U.S. politicians--prestige at home. "The idea is to look good over there," says Stanford University economist Lawrence Lau. "You want to be able to tell people you are a big man in Washington. You have dinner with the President, and your picture is taken with him. People back home will then say, 'Ah, this guy is well connected.'" In Indonesia last week, as news of the controversy spread, the Riadys were variously reported by their secretaries as being...
...ordered the CIA to estimate the chances of an upheaval in Cuba during his first term: the agency said better than fifty-fifty. Clinton aides later pressed the cia to fund Cuban dissidents secretly. Burned by a dirty-tricks campaign against Castro in the '60s, the agency sidetracked the idea...
Well aware of this, the players are united on the idea of playing each game intensely and overlooming no one on their daunting schedule which includes a much awaited confrontation with Dartmouth, the current leader in the Ivy League division...
...America is a liberal idea," he said...