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...Insomuch as U.S. News is culpable for this phenomenon, so are students and university officials. It is the student, as a consumer of this commodification and faulty data, who perpetuates the rankings by using them. U.S. News is, after all, a publication. If there were no readership, it would not be able to continue its dastardly deeds. As long as people continue to pay attention to the rankings, thus lending them a popular credibility, U.S. News will continue abusing them...
Koornhof offers no immediate solutions, but he does offer hope insomuch as he represents a new breed of Afrikaaner politician. He is willing to admit the inequities and hardships blacks suffer in South Africa and is devoted to finding a solution, albeit an Afrikaaner solution, to South Africa's racial troubles. Dr. Koornhof, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, and the Foreign Minister Pik Botha, are "verligte" i.e. liberal Afrikaaners. Dr. Treurnicht, a former chairman of the Broederbond, is "verkrampte" i.e. conservative. The question of South Africa's future will depend to a large extent on the political struggle between these factions...
...long so to handle the matere with the Duke of Sidonia as he shal wish himselfe at St Mary Port among his orenge trees." Ere long indeed the desperate duke was driven into "the boisterous and uncouth Northren seas," where many of his "battered and crazed ships" were wrecked. "Insomuch that of 134 ships there returned home 53 onely small and great...
...Insomuch as these were only two unofficial delegates from the 3000 odd undergraduates of Harvard at this convention, it might seem that the Harvard student's mind turns rather towards lighter subjects during vacation. But anyone who heard Kirby Page speak on the problems facing the youth of today would not feel that their "political emotions" were all in vain. The facts of overproduction, un-equal distribution of wealth, class enmity, unemployment, and disarmament, are not fully realized by college students. A statement such as Kirby Page made, that if some agreement concerning reparations is not reached within the year...
...appellation 'Ash Can Beauty Contest' " said he severely, "is not only facetious but fallacious insomuch as the contest is for a litter basket and not an ash can. . . . The litter basket is to be the receptacle for paper wrappers, newspapers, and other small discarded articles. . . . The purpose of the ash can is well known...