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...State of the Union speech is one of the great rituals of the Republic, enacted before the Cabinet, both Houses of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the diplomatic corps and a prime-time TV audience numbering scores of millions. This speech was pure Reagan: a late draft showed about half the words rewritten in the President's handwriting. Many of his changes softened proposed jabs at the Democrats. On this occasion Reagan wanted to project an image of firm but temperate leadership that is national rather than partisan, while still setting out the points...
...states. The beer company sued in a Denver federal court, demanding that Corr's change its name. Coors claimed that the tiny soda maker was trying to trade on the brewer's identity. As evidence, it cited one of Corr's slogans, "Made with pure Rocky Mountain water," which barely differs from the beer company's famous motto...
Over the next 10 minutes, Hurley recorded a pure hat trick, three consecutive goals...
...cannot be counted on to change the world. The other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized" in the status quo because it is, well, the status quo. Both views unfairly denigrate the ideals of our generation and wrongly reject the possibility of change...
...seems that a more general reconsideration of the College's responsibilities is in order. Over the years, the institution has taken pride in providing a pure liberal arts education, shunning anything in the curriculum that might appear to be career preparation. That philosophy worked fine in 1960, when only 10 percent of the graduating class sought immediate employment, or even in 1970, when one-fourth did. But 57 percent of the Class of 1982 went straight into the job market after securing their diplomas. A Harvard A.B. is no longer one of many pauses on the long road toward...