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...world's most populous democracy, the other rules by diktat. India's leader is 20 years older and the frail veteran of 47 years in politics; Pakistan's is a fit career soldier whose political life began just two years ago in a military coup. Vajpayee is a master orator given to flights of poetry; Musharraf is a plainspoken man with a blunt, forthright style. The first has succeeded by adroitly sidestepping conflict and finessing confrontation, the second by cutting straight to the core of a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poet And The Soldier | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into...

Author: By Donald Carswell, DONALD CARSWELL | Title: Beating the System | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

With this Tranquility Room, Mather House Master Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 said that now students will have a place to do just that...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather House Opens 'Tranquility Room' | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...assembly, which included Massachusetts Gov. Jane M. Swift, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant and members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, was met with a Latin convocation by Head Master Cornelia A. Kelley...

Author: By Ronaldo Rauseo-ricupero, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bush Comes To Boston After Education Victory | 1/9/2002 | See Source »

According to Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, when the employee asked the suspect what he was doing in the laundry room, he replied that he was hiding...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Man Caught in Lowell Sorting Laundry | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

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