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...traveling off-the-cuff. At the time we were still wrapped in Harvard mode, which meant keeping the spontaneity at bay, but at least we started out in the right mind-set. This was senior year and not the time for important sightseeing in interesting countries. Instead, the mantra was “traditional State U. Spring Break.” Food, drinks, beach, and sun—everything else was to be forgotten.Of course, we had to do some research. Group members were each assigned one of the possible locations, which they investigated and reported back to the group...
...What Can You Do? It's now the mantra of emergency management officials everywhere: every household should have enough water, food and other supplies to last at least three days, as well as a family reunion and communication plan. And yet a 2005 survey by Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness found that only 29% of Americans had some or all the major elements of an emergency plan...
Reese echoed the mantra of his teammates and coaches when he said before the Maine game, “Every team is a new team, and we get a new team with a bunch of new guys, guys that don’t remember, and you just have to do your best to not think about...
...they want to have a negative campaign not about the issues, they will be met on the campaign field," says Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, the former Clinton White House aide who heads the Democrats' campaign committee for House races. Theirs has been a shifting line of attack. January's mantra about the G.O.P.'s "culture of corruption" became February's lament about the "rubber-stamp Congress." The latest slogan they are hurling against the Republicans is "dangerously incompetent." (That, however, can be a tricky visual, as Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow discovered when she stood next to a placard with those...
...sobering words said on stage. The Iran Freedom Concert at Harvard will be repeated in coming months at other progressive colleges—Duke, Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford. The events are a great sign of increasing student activism and student commitment to open forum. The mantra of the concerts should be a model for students, politicians, and citizens everywhere...