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...students to the polls. As it stands, the council is no longer necessary, and its claims to legitimacy are tenuous. Perhaps it is fitting that Harvard students, the vanguard of the species, would get by just fine in the state of nature without government. At any rate, students have outgrown the council, and would do well to abolish...
...which makes Paul Maidman, a.k.a. Fryz, roll his eyes. Maidman used to hang out with gH, but now he's 18 and has long since outgrown such shenanigans. "I don't like Web-page hacking," he says. "It's too easy. It's the younger kids who do it--13- or 14-year-olds. As time goes on, you realize you don't really gain anything...
...guided not by analysis but by conclusions--specifically a belief in so-called supply-side economics. No matter what the data showed, the results among Reagan-era economists like Arthur Laffer were always the same: tax cuts and less regulation were the solution. Rubin, Greenspan and Summers have outgrown ideology. Their faith is in the markets and in their own ability to analyze them. "It's unusual," Greenspan says. "In Washington usually you come to the table, and everyone meets, and no one changes their mind. But with us, you have something else...
...schoolers have been joined by an exodus from the city's troubled public schools. The result is a metropolitan area that today boasts 1,500 home-school families, many with teenage children demanding basketball teams, theater productions and science labs. So the home-school movement in Wichita has literally outgrown the home. Wichita's home schoolers boast three bands, a choir, a bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate team, a yearly musical, two libraries and a cap-and-gown graduation. In donated rooms across Wichita, home schoolers attend classes...
...once possible for those children, after they had outgrown the nursery school, to move around the corner onto Brattle Street, where the basement of Holy Trinity Armenian Church, itself a unique building in the midst of Tory Row, housed the Ecole Bilingue, a French elementary school (its campus has since moved to Arlington). Students immersed themselves in another language and another world, while learning by osmosis something of the Armenian people and their faith...