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"The student body definitely could do more," he said. "We're really indebted to these people and the hard work they do. This place is beautiful and well-run because of them."

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Annual Worker Appreciation Day Held by Undergraduates | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

For Lieberman, who has failed to speak publicly since his nomination without praising America's willingness to embrace diversity and safeguard minority rights, the position is particularly disturbing. Openly indebted to a country whose acceptance of principles of legal equality engendered his success, Lieberman comes across as nothing short of...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Rights Policies Gone Wrong | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

It may seem odd that the Secretary of the Treasury of the richest nation on earth is obsessed with poverty. But Larry Summers has used his stint in government not only to boost the U.S. economy but also to push policies designed to eradicate global poverty. Top on his list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forgive, But Don't Forget | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Leaving important public-policy decisions to elected branches might make sense, trial lawyers say, if those branches did their jobs. But they are so indebted to special interests--including Big Business and the National Rifle Association--that they tend to stay gridlocked. After the shooting rampages at Columbine and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Lawyers Running America? | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

She checked her watch. 3:30 a.m. Less than three days until Commencement, when they would join the company of educated and indebted men and women. Adult men and women, with harder features and eyes more warm than the teenagers with poodle hair who had eaten here almost four years...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: To the Dearly Departing | 6/6/2000 | See Source »

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