Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lest either institution take too much credit for producing great leaders, Prof. Nelson points out that family connections—more than schooling—were responsible for the success of many elite alums...
Since the 1980s, vouchers have been suggested as a way of at least balancing the playing field to allow the worst off a choice in where they send their children to school in D.C. Lest they get excited over what clearly would improve D.C. education, Republicans themselves should understand that vouchers are not an all-in-one solution to what ails public education in America. But it’s a step in the right direction, particularly when the system that’s undergoing the reform is D.C.’s, a school system that so horribly fails...
...Mather’s residents delude themselves into thinking that among River Houses, they are uniquely cursed by the blight of distance? Perhaps they are spoiled by the decadent luxury of having a personal “Mather Shuttle,” which exists solely for their benefit, lest they should sully their pristine soles by having to walk to class...
...Pentagon official told me the idea of reactivating the army is "naive"--which is ironic, given the Pentagon's willful naivete about postwar Iraq. But I suspect that all these options will be attempted in the coming months, lest George W. Bush face the electorate in 2004 as the President who presided over a severe degradation of the U.S. military and the diminution of America's reputation in the world--as the President who lost Iraq...
...Pentagon official told me the idea of reactivating the army is "naive"-which is ironic, given the Pentagon's willful naivete about postwar Iraq. But I suspect that all these options will be attempted in the coming months, lest George W. Bush face the electorate in 2004 as the President who presided over a severe degradation of the U.S. military and the diminution of America's reputation in the world-as the President who lost Iraq...