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...essay is usually a neutral factor in admission, written carefully on a safe subject, like the applicant's hometown or extracurricular activities. "But in about 10 per cent of the cases it's really interesting and well done," Reardon said. "It brings to life what may not have come out in the application itself and in about 10 per cent of the cases it's a disaster...
...these publications, which have appeared in slightly altered form every September for many years, are more than neutral representations of various aspects of Harvard. It is impossible to ignore their special, didactic purposes--purposes only faintly hinted at in the texts themselves. Early in Rules Relating, an entire page is devoted to this brief statement...
Turin's capitalists have been cautiously neutral toward the new administration. Former Christian Democratic Mayor Giovanni Porcellana, who looks forward to leading a "regenerative opposition," admits that "so far [the Communists] sound like Northern European Social Democrats." A lot of Italians will put the emphasis on that...
...simply a matter of discharging America's debt to Vietnam--the war brought too many beyond the reach of debtors and creditors. It is more a matter of earning the astonishing friendship so many Vietnamese have expressed towards an American people that--sometimes, as in the bombing of a neutral Cambodia, unknowingly--let its government commit barbarities in its name...
That the coalition has survived even this far is a testament to Souvanna. For three decades the debonair prince-with his well-known fondness for black cigars, tennis and poker-has patiently pursued his dream of "seeing a Laos that will be neutral and ready to do its bit for peace in the world." A member of a junior branch of Laos' ruling dynasty,* he attended elitist French schools in Hanoi and France, and for 19 years served in the public works service of the French colonial administration...