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...Powers of the Democratic Party stave off unwelcome thoughts and get out of bed to start the day? They reach for an entirely different parallel: if you look at Gore from a slightly different angle, squinting your eyes just a little, you may be able to see him turning into George Bush the Elder instead of Walter Mondale. George Bush the Elder was also an experienced and worthy and charisma-free Vice President who had paid his dues. Gore and Bush the Elder have other similarities--Ivy League educations, for instance, and fathers who served in the Senate. The Powers...
...parallel with the administration's efforts,the admissions office is continuing to step up itsrecruitment of international students...
...hope of the Annex authorities that the two lines of work now running almost parallel may soon merge into one," the editorial read...
These two notions of Harvard parallel the political divide that defines the debate over the nation's most bitterly contested social issues. Liberals tend to be structuralists, arguing, for instance, that welfare is needed because macro-economic forces create little demand for low-skilled workers. Conservatives, by contrast, are usually individualists, arguing, for instance, that the responsibility for paying for the poor falls not on the state, but on the poor themselves, who are responsible for finding their own job in a free market system...
...favorite series of books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. In them, Lewis creates a parallel fantasy world with struggles similar to ours, liberally sprinkled with characters derived from mythology and religion, all created and cared for by a child's image of God: Aslan, the great lion. Those very books have been my companions from the first day a quite proper English lady (there's nothing else to call her but that!) read them to my fourth-grade class until now as I am preparing to leave the sanctuaries of college life and childhood behind for good...