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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C-. (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...disappointed we got beat rather handily," said Yzerman. "It's been going on for quite a while now. At the beginning of the year, we could shrug it off - a loss here, a loss there - but now they're starting to pile up and it's starting to become a concern...
...purpose about the work you are doing; the romantic conception of scholars living the life of the mind comes true for a moment. My phone all but stopped ringing, my in-box achieved some stasis, and I didn't have to be anywhere--at all; there were just a pile of unread books, ideas waiting to be hatched, and a lot of time...
Susan Collins, the junior Senator from Maine, was sifting through a pile of Christmas cards at her home in Bangor one morning last week when the phone rang. "Hello, Susan!" said the smooth baritone voice on the other end of the line. It was Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, calling from his home in Pascagoula, Miss., and wanting to talk about the biggest issue to confront the Senate in a generation: the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Hearing from Lott was a relief to Collins, a moderate Republican in a Democratic-leaning state where the President remains popular...
...Capitalist Tool. His Scottish-immigrant father, Bertie C. Forbes, a popular Hearst business columnist, had launched the fortnightly Forbes in 1917 and profited from inspirational profiles of company leaders. The very first editorial in this very first U.S. business magazine began, "Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions...