Word: peered
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What is especially sad is that a thoughtful critique of the Review by its peer Peninsula might persuade Review staffers to abandon their hateful antics. It might have pushed the Review towards the coherent, reasoned approach to conservatism that occasionally appears in Peninsula...
...term-bills are indiscriminately garnished without regard for our sensibilities. We pay for peer counselors to tell us about abortion, we pay doctors and nurses to recommend abortion, and finally we pay the bill when Harvard's children are snuffed out. It is abhorrent that we are forcibly compelled to make these payments and then burdened with the responsibility of requesting a refund...
...tell them: don't fool yourself into believing that simple mediocrity will earn you a fair share. You must remember that you are judged by standards set by the white majority. I also tell them not to give in to the peer pressure in the black community, where success is equated with "trying to be white." A young black can be pressured into not doing well because getting good grades is perceived as trying to be white...
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, popularized this simple idea: give small "peer groups" the credit they need to start their own businesses. They then act as a combination credit committee and collection agency: if one member defaults, the others must pay back the money. The average Grameen loan is $67, and the repayment rate is 98%. Among those groups following his lead was Chicago's Neighborhood Institute, which gave Rickenbacker her loan, formed her peer group and sponsored a 13-week entrepreneurial-trainin g class...
Melissa R. Hart '91 is executive editor of The Crimson and a member of Reponse, a peer counseling group that deals with issues of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment...