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...General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at the same session. "They're very visible, they're up above the ground, and you can go after them before launch if you so desire. We're not advocating pre-emptive, but it is a physical capability that we possess...
...approached the microphone to award honorary degrees to recently tenured professors who do not already possess a Harvard degree, Faust realized that the stand supporting the microphone was too short for her. She attempted to adjust its height, but it did not budge...
...princely states threaded together into a federal republic. Some of its states remain huge and unwieldy - for example, the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with its estimated 190 million people, would be virtually tied with Brazil as the fifth most populous country on earth but it would also possess 8% of the world's population under the global poverty line. With a country of India's size and diversity - as well as poverty - there is logic in having smaller states. "It will in fact strengthen [governance] through economic and administrative convenience," says Delhi-based political analyst Paranjoy Guha Thakurta...
...Experience is arbitrary," wrote Editor Adam Clark Estes. "But we will demand that you understand teh internet, possess a cutting sense of humor, and write with a proto-David Foster Wallace voice. Seriously, otherwise, just email us if you're up for cranking out content. IvyGate pays in beer and glory. And trust me, it flows freely...
...myriad benefits by making books more easily accessible and less expensive to acquire and maintain. However, this is also not without unfortunate consequences—many attach an important sentimental value to hard copies of books that cannot be replicated in equally massive, but electronic, collections. But we already possess large stores of physical texts that will not be abolished by library reforms; the “profound stimulus to the imagination” of walking through the Widener stacks described by English Professor Robert Scanlan will not be a victim of reforms. However, the concerns of students whose work...