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...writing a thesis,” Maxwell fired back in one breath. But it was too late—the mechanical whizzing of the now-full workout room was too loud. Livingstone demounted having heard nothing, and headed off to her WIB event. It occurred to me that no matter how hard Maxwell tried to make herself appear over-committed, she’d always be considered a failure in Livingstone’s mind. Livingstone, vowed to celibacy until after e-recruiting, would always be competitively single. Later that night, I saw Livingstone a few feet ahead...
...worldview, which “says that America is a nation of exceptionalism, and we are to be a shining city on a hill, as President Reagan so beautifully said, that we are a beacon of hope and that we are unapologetic here.” This may not matter almost 400 years after the fact, but Governor and founding Bay Stater John Winthrop might have had a case in intellectual property court here. Moreover, Palin’s mega-sentence is generally riddled with contradiction. Winthrop’s city on a hill, at least from the abstraction...
...People believe in crazy things. In a 2004 poll, 34 percent of Americans stated that they believed in ghosts and 24 percent in witches. Dennis Kucinich, in the 2007 Democratic debate, stated that he saw a UFO , which makes him a possible interstellar Manchurian Candidate. So why do dinosaurs matter?Dinosaurs matter because to believe that dinosaurs walked with man, an individual must stubbornly cling to a belief despite all available evidence against it. The young-earth creationist mindset is dogmatic and anti-empirical—which is a very dangerous thing to have in a leader. The current President...
...strive to have a kind of public, community mental health model which emphasizes working in the community, providing education, outreach and prevention work, besides just sitting at our office, seeing students when they want,” he said. “It’s just a matter of making us more visible, more accessible to students.” —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...party and defense minister, said of the present ANC leadership: "We are serving them divorce papers." Lekota said he would convene a national convention of dissatisfied party members and others to discuss "how to defend democracy in this country." He added: "We can't deal with the matter unless we form an organization...