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...student who doesn’t get straight A’s, I am still very happy with my academic experience here. I try keep to keep things in perspective, and learn for learning’s sake. After all, written above the gate entering Harvard Yard is the phrase “Enter to grow in wisdom,” not “Enter to get easy A’s and a kick-ass job after you graduate.” I may not have aced all of my classes, but I am confident that I have...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Getting In is the Hardest Part | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...these critics may be underestimating his strengths. As with Hillary Clinton, this is not his first rodeo (a phrase that rolls smoothly in his accent). Like Barack Obama, he is poised and compelling. Like Rudy Giuliani, he can fall back on bold self-confidence in the face of tricky questions. Like John McCain, he can appeal to independents. And like George W. Bush in 2000, he presents a decided equanimity toward his future. As he told an interviewer, "One advantage you have in not having this as [a] lifelong ambition is that if it turns out that your calculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Role for Fred Thompson | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...REACTION: Such a phrase immediately seemed ill-advised, both in light of the varied faiths of the victims and the potential for adding fuel to anti-Muslim sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict: "What I Meant to Say..." | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...CORRECTION: Though it wasn't clear if the phrase from the draft speech was actually the Pope's or that of then Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, it was excised from the official version released by the Vatican. It was an early sign that there might be problems in the way the new pontiff and his aides respond to diplomatic crises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict: "What I Meant to Say..." | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...Obama was announcing his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, the hometown of Abraham Lincoln. But even more controversial than Obama’s absence to West was his decision to honor Lincoln, which some panelists, West included, viewed as betrayal to the “people,” the phrase he used to refer to the African-American population at large...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Rock On, Brother West | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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