Word: parred
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Krugman and his fellow ideologues aren’t admitting that it’s the war, not just Bush, which is popular with Americans. Pre-war CNN polls showed that more than 60 percent of Americans supported military intervention in Iraq, on par with Bush’s approval ratings. The roughly equal percentages make sense. Bush can serve his political ambitions only by catering to the electorate; if the war did indeed serve Bush’s personal aspirations, it must also have been a war that most Americans believed was just. In our democracy, ambition can?...
...availability of physical comforts beyond basic necessities is also growing. Lower prices of raw materials and energy signal that they are less scarce, easier to find and cheaper to produce. Aluminum was considered a rare precious metal on par with gold and silver only 100 years ago, but technology has made its extraction cheap and its supply essentially unlimited. Demand for just 12 metals makes up more than 99 percent of world demand for all metals, and supply of those 12 is now considered inexhaustible. Oil prices have fallen over tenfold in the last century while the amount of proven...
You’ll only start to get the big-time swamp-honeys if you think of ass-getting as an extracurricular responsibility on par with a major CityStep or Crimson Key leadership position. Morever, getting involved in CityStep or Crimson Key is a great way to grind up against the most rhythmic and ambitious asses at the College, respectively. Walking into the chillest final clubs on a Saturday night wearing a Crimson Key T-shirt is like wearing a neon sign that says, “I’m the master locksmith, I’m the great...
...don’t let them bother me too much. After all, graduate students need to teach, and it’s simply not reasonable to expect all of them to have equal pedagogical skills. Harvard needs money, and thus must on occasion bite the bullet and accept sub-par students whose names coincide with those on its buildings. Some things just are the way they are. C’est la vie. Que sera, sera...
...there is anything to be concluded, it is this: The quadlings have nothing to lose but their sub-par housing situation. They have a world to win. Quadlings of all Houses, unite...