Word: particularity
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...they can pursue their educational mission. Even the best intended federal regulations may infringe on the ability of colleges to educate their students. Besides, with so many colleges and universities using different loan schemes and such strong incentives to find new ways to send business to a particular lender, federal legislation would only provide a temporary bandage to a growing wound. Thankfully, Harvard has not been mired in this controversy; the College does not even have a preferred lender. But as students at a university where all is well, we should not ignore the plight of students being swindled across...
...president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum, said he disagreed with Heinz Kerry’s approach to the regulation of cosmetics. “We should be allowed to put whatever we want on our faces,” Harris said. “You should not ban those particular products, you should restrict the amount of pollutants that can be released by that process.” Kerry said the book was inspired by current events. “It’s 254 pages of recycled Attorney Gonzales emails,” he quipped...
...imperfect view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life." This is druggie talk - febrile and largely meaningless. That it was printed in Life magazine - the most influential publication of the day - without irony shows how na?ve we were. (Wasson in particular: he gave mushrooms to his 18-year-old daughter the day after his first trip...
...first civilian transfer of power since independence in 1960. That much was achieved with Monday's declaration that Umaru Yar'Adua will be the country's next President - ostensibly by a landslide 24.6 million votes to 6.6 million for his nearest rival. But it remains doubtful that this particular civilian transfer of power will end the political turmoil that has accompanied the election campaign...
...Yeltsin was one of those few Russian leaders who became figures of world history. He was very Russian in everything, in his controversies in particular. He was also a true, born leader, capable of going against the tide of public opinion. He did so when he quarreled with Gorbachev in the Soviet Politburo. He did go against the tide, when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He did so when he hired Yegor Gaidar and his team to launch his reform...