Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea is you can go see as many inspirational speakers as you want, but at a certain point you need to practice your skills to achieve your vision," Lee said...
...watched their power play quite a bit," Konik said. "We had a pretty good idea of the things they like to do. Because of that, we were able to focus on setting up and stopping them...
First-years should be selecting their coursework to get an idea of what they'd like to concentrate in. Though survey courses are not always the most exciting introduction to a field, they are the best way to get an idea of what an area of study is all about. Many first-years feel that they cannot take advantage of the Freshman Seminar program because they have too many other classes which they need to take. It seems deeply unfair, perverse even, to deny the seminar experience to those first-years who most acutely understand their responsibilities as students...
...Steve Forbes' flat tax has become about the best idea going, since it is just about the only idea around. We are almost willing to sacrifice the presidency to a single-issue candidate because there are no multiple-issue ones. The substance vacuum that is plaguing America distorts the political process. The voters of New Hampshire go to the polls today aware of the presidential horse-race but ignorant about what those horses will do once in the winner's circle...
...democracy. Of course, we have seen politically inexperienced rich men try to spend their way into high office before, but at least they could claim to be self-made, or they started with an office lower than the top one. Forbes is a very good argument against the American idea that every child can aspire to be President. How far we have come from the days when a man had to claim to be born in a log cabin to run. Forbes' "new idea" is yet another tax break for the rich disguised in pseudopopulist rhetoric and heavily promoted with...