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...Evans's vision is of houses where "each kid will be well-known and will learn about the responsibility of being part of a community for oneself and for others." Course choices will be limited to the offerings within the house, and teachers will teach within their house only...
...primary meaning, from the root word jhd, is to strive or exert oneself. . . . What is clear, though, is that striving in the right path involves foremost one's struggle to reorient one's own self to live according to how God would have His creation live," reads the statement prepared...
...There's an important and powerful network that you're exposed to when you've gone to Harvard," Barnes said. "[But] populism is probably better in campaigning than claiming oneself to be a product of the establishment...
...perform. For the coming-of-age cliches don't stop once Tim settles in at Cornwall. There are a sadistic housemaster, a hidebound headmaster, a geeky roommate and a duplicitous pal to contend with, and the prettiest girl on campus (Amy Smart) to woo, ruin and redeem. One finds oneself asking how such familiar stuff breeds contentment instead of contempt...
...also absorbed the lesson that it's possible to serve the public and oneself at the same time. In TV spots last winter, households interested in purchasing discount fuel from Citizens Energy were asked to call a toll-free number that just happened to be 877-JOE-4-OIL. Maybe he's not entirely out of politics...