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When I applied to college, I was under the mistaken impression that a bigger resume was a better resume. "Five single spaced pages!" I would announce to my jealous peers, "although I did have to put down 'toilet trained' in the skills section...
...Bush Administration still hopes to get the aircraft carrier under way before the President travels to Cartagena, Colombia, next month for a drug- policy meeting with Barco, whom Washington admires for his gutsy fight against the drug lords. The mistaken reports of a broad U.S. blockade of Colombia sparked a resignation threat from Barco's Foreign Minister. Said a Pentagon officer about Barco's embarrassment: "We almost shot a friendly...
...Square horrifying -- has revealed a brittleness in the entire communist system, whether the armed and uniformed minions of the state ended up snipping barbed wire, as they did in Hungary, or slaughtering students, as they did in China. That brittleness has been there all along, but it was often mistaken for toughness. By "calling things by their own names," Gorbachev is admitting that much of what has been perceived by the outside world as his country's collective "discipline" is actually an ossifying, demoralizing, brutalizing system of institutionalized inefficiency. He should make us look again at the U.S.S.R.: a monstrosity...
...quite. The group was on its way to plan the biggest U.S. military operation since Viet Nam: the invasion of Panama, launched two nights later. But perhaps she was not totally mistaken. If war preparations are scarcely usual in the Bush White House, they are not as stunningly out of character as they would have seemed only a few months ago. The Panama invasion marks the latest, but far from the first, stage in a monumental transformation of George Bush: from a President whose overriding imperative during his initial months in office was to avoid doing "something dumb...
...year is just one example of the superior potential in the student body for sciences. So there is already a large number of undergraduates to work with who have a strong scientific skills and interests, but they are leaving the sciences after arriving here. That is why Harvard is mistaken in concentrating its efforts on the high school level. Campaigns to spark interest in science at an early age are useless if that interest is crushed by disgust in freshman year. Leo Clark '92 Applied Mathematics (Considering switching to Social Studies