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Nathans and Lewis both said they think that suitable arrangements have been made to address the concerns of first-years who might object the presence of a pet for health-related or other reasons...
Lamm, the former Colorado governor who challenged H. Ross Perot this summer for the Reform Party nomination, spoke with humor on entitlements, slow economic growth, health care, the trade and budget deficits and Social Security, which he called an "actuarial nightmare." He also focused on his pet issues of "generational inequity" and "generational malpractice...
Thus, the dominant hypothesis that remains is that of the awesome power of coping skills. Yes, coping skills. These are the same coping skills that let you move on after you get dumped by your significant other or when your favorite childhood pet runs away. True--coping at Harvard is not a new thing. Freshman year we tolerated and even grew to love the roommate who never took showers, constantly referred to itself in the third person, and insisted on practicing the tuba at 7 a.m. on weekends. Likewise, slowly but surely we even came to accept that pre-meds...
...back of Sunday magazines and relegated to Wednesday supplements. Men of power and women of means do not deign to discuss the particulars of a succulent piece of quail or the lightness of a perfectly-cooked souffle, preferring instead to jabber about the stock market or their pet poodles. They do not understand the obsession of the "foodie," the person for whom the best of life can be summed up in one divine meal...
...Democratic majority. As Gingrich and the Republicans began to stumble on issues like school lunches and Medicare, Gephardt and his increasingly optimistic troops began hammering out Families First in endless meetings. "Everyone brought their ideas," he says. Most of them were thrown out, including Gephardt's own pet protectionist proposals on trade...