Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean, pock-marked man got to talking about the food in jail. It isn't bad in Concord Penitentiary; they give you half a chicken on Sundays. But the South Shore, now--that was the worst...
These are small things, to be sure, and not a single sick or hungry child will feel better because the Millennium Club opens its doors to women. On the other hand, is life not made up of small things? Lots and lots of small things? And isn't there considerable truth in that old banality of Edmund Burke's about the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil being for good men to do nothing (he presumably meant good people or good individuals, but never mind -- the creation of aphorisms was simpler in Burke...
...having such players on a squad isn't enough to bring down divine destruction on any hockey team unlucky enough to stand in RPI's path, the Engineers have a plan...
HARVARD BUSINESS School provides vocational training. It isn't supposed to shape the moral character of its students, who come to Cambridge to acquire specific skills and knowledge. It's only inevitable that a few alumni will do things of which the school won't be proud, so there is little reason for the soul-searching going on right now. Harvard graduates tend to do well after they leave because they were already talented achievers when they got here. The University claims too much credit for their later success; it isn't morally responsible when they go astray...
...today's environment, B-School students are at Harvard to figure out how to maximize profits; social justice isn't on the agenda of American business. One course won't make any difference...