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...Still, that doesn’t mean we should return to the days of divine right. There’s a way to conserve the idea of genius without succumbing to elitism. Rather than maintain the illusion that with due diligence anyone can be a superstar, we should argue that any of us could be the one harboring that hidden genius potential. Who knows who might be considered a genius retrospectively? Probably not the grind with the flashcards...
...during car-themed movies; if you’ve decided to watch “The Fast and The Furious” and I walk in, be prepared to learn that “granny-shifting, not double-clutching like you should” doesn’t actually mean anything on modern cars. Who knew? Maybe including my love of cars on my admissions application might have been an asset rather than a liability after all?—David I. Fulton-Howard ’08-10 is a senior Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House...
...events in the book read like an unstoppable wave of progressivism. Isn't it kind of a fantasy to expect that to actually happen? Well, I tried to unleash almost everything short of detonations [on the main characters]. I mean, the other side really unleashed about everything they had, but you see, they weren't used to being taken on by the big guys or in ways they'd never seen before. They're used to meat-and-potatoes lobbying: put the ads on, get the think tanks going, throw more money in the PACs. Very traditional...
...monthlong trial is a game for big stakes. For de Villepin, a conviction would mean a maximum five-year prison sentence and a 10-year ban from public office - a death blow to his political credibility. Acquittal, however, would allow de Villepin to claim the title as the main Clearstream victim - and add legal persecution to his long list of accusations to pound Sarkozy with...
...right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor and leader of the CDU, hopes to drop her current partners and govern instead with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). But a tight electoral race and the complexity of the German voting system mean that outcome is far from certain...