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...wisdom of going to war in the Persian Gulf. How quickly they fell. From the sordid hearings concerning the sexual proclivities of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to bounced checks at the House Bank and mismanagement at the House Post Office, this Congress thereafter rarely contrived to escape the mire of its own making. And when on occasion it did, its effectiveness was usually blunted by political posturing. No wonder a record 72 incumbents have announced plans to retire...
Harvard would be taking an important step beyond actively seeking out qualified minorities. And if the College justified the program in terms of correcting past wrongs, it would then mire itself in the logically complicated mud of relative deprivation. Who is really worse off--the disabled white student from a broken home, or the middle class Black student...
...woman who joins welfare with a family of four to adequately provide for her group, but penalizing her should she increase the size of the initial family. This is not reproductive Stalinism--it is simply a method by which we ensure that fewer children are born into the mire of poverty by selfish mothers...
...said that a crucial task of the dean of the graduate school is to meet the needs of individual students and individual faculty members. "It is a much mire hand crafted organization [than the College]," Fox says. "Faculty members must respond to each student's intellectual development...
...once faced down a charging lion, which sniffed and retreated in apparent acknowledgment of a fellow animal presence. But the memory may be a mere metaphor for the kind of masculinity he is trying to keep alive. The facts ultimately matter far less than the moral dilemma: whether to mire oneself in dull decency, like the nice nurse whose family can devote a whole conversation to the merits of new shoes, or succumb to seductive selfishness...