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There is much to admire in Amorello’s Quixotic fancy. Countless men and women drive down the Pike every day, scarcely glancing at the humble spit that separates them from their mirror-image twins making the same journey in reverse. Amorello looked at that same sight and saw what no other could: prime real estate. One man, one vision, one rail—gravity’s just bringing us down, baby...
...economic and (so far) cultural terms, but he’s a candidate whose admission would not only bring him into a system which lacks people like him (only 2.1 percent of the Class of 2007 hail from the Rocky Mountain states), benefiting him, but it would make Harvard mirror the real world...
...GSE’s disciplinary standards do not exactly mirror state and federal law, according to Sanni...
...when it comes to the height of its buildings. The city still proudly retains its 19th century skyline, from the Arc de Triomphe and Sacré Coeur to that most universally recognized of structures, the Eiffel Tower. Central Paris has no high-rises and most of the residential neighborhoods mirror the human scale of the Seine, which lacks the brawn of the Thames or the Rhine. This is no accident. The French capital is still largely drawn along the imperial lines laid down by Parisian prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had very clear ideas of just what...
...contrast to most nations, which conscript those who serve in their armed forces. Ours are serving in 146 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The 1.4 million men and women on active duty make up the most diverse military in our history, and yet it is not exactly a mirror of the country it defends. It is better educated than the general population and overweighted with working-class kids and minorities. About 40% of the troops are Southern, 60% are white, 22% are black, and a disproportionate number come from empty states like Montana and Wyoming. When they arrive...