Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no moral to the story of the belated internship, just as there are no instructions or advice that I can offer intrepid internship seekers. This is merely the story of one among many students who waits for a letter offering congratulations or complete rejection. I have tried everything possible, including daily harassing phone calls to staffers, and I still await an answer. When you look around at others in section, realize that they too are harboring secret fears about letters or e-mail message. Like myself, they too are hiding failures from parents, friends or roommates. Perhaps...
...when you've devoted yourself to a candidate like Primary Colors' Jack Stanton--charming, idealistic in some ways, but more than a little slippery? That's the kind of presidential timber we've been getting in the movies lately. Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are. Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with...
...mean if you read Robert Nozick, a Harvard professor, I think he's a Libertarian or at least a man of the right--to read someone like that or to talk to [William F.] Buckley is to learn that there are aspects of the conservative message that are interesting, moral decay and so forth, although I don't necessarily agree with where they pinpoint...
Before the novel's publication in January, when it still bore the name Morrison had picked for it--War--Morrison had intended this moment of violence to both open and close Paradise. In so doing, the whole moral weight of histories, conflicts and biases that she unpacks throughout the novel would bear down upon the shootists (and the reader) at the climactic moment of violence...
Even with the aid of two of Harvard's best outside shooters, Team Crimson was outgunned by Harvard. The moral of the story: if you're setting up a shooting contest with the nation's best, make sure you can get five of their players on your side instead of just...