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...clear that our health-care system needs improvement, but many average Americans do not trust the government to do the job. A large part of the reason may be that what Congress designs for us is guaranteed to be, as with Social Security and retirement plans, vastly inferior to what they create for--and bestow upon--themselves. Kenneth Solnit, CUPERTINO, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...Assuming that most people understand the moral implications of her excuse—regarding the African as a subpar human being with inferior mental capacities—I won’t argue why I find such an implicit characterization both inflammatory, especially as the son of a North African, and dehumanizing. What makes the characterization worse, however, is that my project leader is an intelligent graduate of Makerere University—the most prestigious institution of its kind in Uganda—who is considering furthering her education at the London School of Economics and says her ultimate goal...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: T.I.A. | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...that it will take six to nine months for his competition to catch up. "It's not just low price," Wang says. "There is innovation in the product as well." Acer is entering the cell-phone business, and Wang makes no excuses for churning out low-margin netbooks, considered inferior devices by computerati because of their cramped keyboards and limited performance. "Our competitors consider these junk - the more you sell, the more you lose," Wang says. "We don't judge. We do what the customer really wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Riders | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...particularly because the lack of a straightforward historical requirement, in contrast to the Core’s two Historical Study categories. Adam G. Beaver, the History department’s outgoing assistant director of undergraduate studies, says that he finds Gen Ed to be an “inferior, warmed-over version of the Core,” which—while seeking to produce global citizens—should teach students where they came from as well as where they are going. But Beaver adds that the department views submitting a variety of course proposals to the curriculum...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Forced To Get Practical | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Feeling apart, alien, inferior, Terry was drawn to "Jimmy Preston, who was a real boy, and whom I envied; Jimmy Preston, who once put his hand on my shoulder, and I didn't want him to remove it." Homosexuality was not just a sin to Catholics; in Britain it was a crime. (Davies cites the condemnation of a judge about to sentence two gay men: "Not only have you committed an act of gross indecency, but you did it under one of London's most beautiful bridges.") But the need to be with another man was too strong to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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