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...Democrats' challenge is to do one of two things. What they are going to try to do, what they should do, is say nothing except "Had enough?" If they try to wear a mask and pretend to be moderates, Republicans will cheerfully take the mask...
...just wonder what exactly the purpose is in having literature majors learn (or pretend to learn, or re-learn) how to do stoichiometry or memorize the exact chemical makeup of the stratosphere. Apart from an increased ability to memorize (or fake it), what do history students gain from memorizing dozens of equations only to forget everything a day later, or, as a friend put it, “copying problem sets and barely passing the final...
This class-struggle, if you will, is why Harvard ranks 27th out 31 elite schools in student satisfaction according to a 2005 Consortium on Financing Higher Education poll (COFHE). Two administration sources—anonymous because they are supposed to pretend it doesn’t exist—say that Yale and Princeton do "considerably" better than Harvard in the poll, which was conducted in secret and leaked to the press. Our worst features were "a "sense of community" and social life"—that oxymoron...
...Matalin: I won't even pretend that I have one scintilla of understanding of it. But we're really into...
...Washington next month, is it possible that the U.S.-China trade relationship is about to go off the rails? Global markets shrug it off when the French throw a hissy fit and race to protect their vital national yogurt industry, as they did last year, or when pundits pretend it matters which European Union country owns what gas utility. But a trade war between the U.S. and China?with each side taking punitive, protectionist steps to shut out the other's products, services and investments?poses a real danger to the world's biggest economy (the U.S.) and the world...