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...just that the recall in California offered me a terrific platform, because I had a lot of things I wanted to say. I had a lot of ideas about what was wrong in government, and some of them were very controversial...I felt I had a painless way to balance the budget, and that is to expand gaming operations and allow slot machines in private casinos. When you come up with controversial ideas like that, you’re going to get rejected out of hand. But I think in my heart I knew I could never get the voters...
...tendency to betray the tradition of liberal education altogether. For those history concentrators with a focus in International History, “The Strategy of International Politics” is a likely way to fulfill a QR requirement, with the added encouragement of the course being “painless,” according to the CUE guide. By their sophomore years, if they’re smart, Harvard students are looking at the “workload” and “difficulty” ratings of any Core course, and saving their energies for concentration courses that...
...democratization of plastic surgery that her unveiling can be portrayed as a family event--like a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, only slightly more disturbing. "Having work done" was once something rich people did, quietly, and everyone else whispered about, cattily. Then came Botox--the relatively cheap and painless gateway drug of cosmetic work--and plastic surgery was being touted in women's magazines and on talk shows. This has been a boon to surgeons, but it has turned plastic surgery into the new Las Vegas: once laced with glamour and vice, now opened up to boring normal people...
...almost like a roller coaster but so much more fun.” Halfway down, the instructor pulls their parachute cord, and they coast down the rest of the way at a relaxed 25-miles-per-hour descent, after topping out around 120. “Landing was painless,” he says after touching down. “I just sat down...
...parents nor I had ever done this sort of thing before—they were immigrants, and higher education worked much differently back in India. Knowing that college applications weren’t due for at least six months, I expected this meeting with authority figures would be painless...