Word: ideas
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According to Nick E.S. Thompson, the vice president of Stanford's student government and an organizer of the movement, the idea came from a belief that the rankings are subjective but exert undue influence over prospective students and employers...
...feared the vices of majority factions, and looking at the Senate, we might say they were right. While the majority should often have the power to make decisions for others, a representative government should be truly representative. What is it about Americans that makes them so averse to the idea of a president who isn't like them...
...plumbing, there hasn't been an inhabitable bridge in London since. But because "the time has come to value [the Thames] properly," British environment minister John Gummer has vowed he'll do all he can to see an inhabitable bridge built by the millennium. Time will tell whether the idea of a modern home over the Thames is more than a castle...
Nobody--especially foreign companies--liked the idea of the U.S. and its agents holding those keys. The new key-recovery proposal tries to get around that objection by chopping the keys into several pieces and storing them with "trusted agents" of the user's choosing. Some nice Swiss banks, perhaps...
China, says Dole, should "play by the rules" and not "threaten its neighbors." We should "prioritize our interests and communicate our priorities to the Chinese leadership." The U.S. should never ignore Chinese misbehavior, says Dole, but like Clinton, he views the idea of denying Beijing most-favored-nation trading status as counterproductive. At bottom, Dole's China policy is Clinton's: stay calm, hope for the best and pray that China's succession struggle goes well...