Word: interesting
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Despite the pressures of inner-city life, Razo excelled academically at several parochial schools and in local boys' clubs. His strong record attracted the interest of several top colleges, and Razo enrolled at Harvard...
...every business executive has an intellectual interest in poverty and a spare $7 million on hand to fund research...
...particular, the former head of the National League of Cities says he has a personal interest in reinforcing ties between the IOP and the new Taubman Center for state and local government...
...summer issue of the neoconservative quarterly National Interest carries an article titled "The End of History?" After 16 densely argued pages, the hedging question mark is all but forgotten, by reader and author alike. History, in the view of Francis Fukuyama, was a Manichaean struggle between ! the forces of light and darkness. The bad guys -- first fascists, now Communists -- have lost, the good guys have triumphed. But if the fight is over, so is the fun. The remainder of life on earth, frets Fukuyama, may be a bit of a bore. If there are no more world-class evils...
Fukuyama, a Sovietologist with a Harvard Ph.D. who previously worked for the Rand Corp., is pondering the criticism and will respond in the winter issue of the National Interest. And if he can take time from readying position papers for his new bosses at State, he hopes to explore his thesis at greater length. Unlike history as he sees it, the debate sparked by Fukuyama may be just beginning...