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...drive and self-assuredness is quite evident in their lyrics. “Ambling Alp” features a father advising, “Stick up for yourself, son”; on “Rome,” the protagonist declares, “Rome is gonna be mine / It’s just a matter of time;” even “O.N.E.’s” somewhat passive narrator declares, “I won’t stop ‘til I’ve given...
...game on my blocking group and me have been more profound. The whole thing started like this: One day, as I often did in the beginning of fall term, I was peering into the common room in Gollum-like fashion from my doorway (in New Quincy one single, mine, sits alone next to the common room, while the other four are downstairs). Though we use it heavily on weekends, our common room was always dark and empty during the week, as we are a quite busy and prolific suite. This particular time, however, I saw my roommate sitting alone...
...cantankerous friend of mine once whined that it takes an “institution” to get people at Harvard to even consider hanging out together. By this she meant that we tend toward things that have a label, that are officially stamped as worthwhile or at least excusable by the powers that be, that fit nicely onto our resumes and succinctly into sentences explaining what exactly we have done with our time on earth. She complained, for example, that no one would waste his or her time having a lengthy intellectual debate unless it was for a debate...
It’s a classic evasion tactic with a 100 percent success rate among that 20 percent of people. And I’d guess that eight percent of mine read FM every week, so I may have to find a new phrase...
...climbing within that bureaucracy, he has the confidence to break it. At the height of the Iraq surge in 2007, which Gates supported, more than 100 soldiers a month were dying. It's almost impossible as an outsider to understand why the Pentagon would not want to build the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, known as MRAPs, that would have saved many of those soldiers' lives. Instead of budgeting for MRAPs, the Pentagon was still spending money on outdated weapon systems. So Gates bypassed the normal procurement process, created a special task force, went to Congress and got the money...