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Thus, although undergraduates may come here for a Harvard education and faculty may come here to work with the best scholars in their field, Harvard administrators never lose sight of the fact that good jobs--or the prospect of such jobs--are a sine qua non for both groups...
...problem is in the design of the game qua game. The two major modes, career and arcade, are exactly identical - literally exactly the same races, except that career mode has much stricter requirements for completion. So strict, in fact, that I predict you will not complete it. And why bother, since the prizes of bizarro cars are all available through the arcade mode anyway? The races also get repetitive, especially because many are so difficult you must do them over and over...
...time in the fall, Al should have campaigned with Bill on the issues and sent Bill out to preach the gospel of Al. Doesn't the Tennessean realize that if the Rhodes scholar were to run again, he would easily defeat his veep and W.? The most successful politician qua politician of our day, Bill still gets 60 percent approval ratings, as if the Gallup Poll keeps on questioning the same pool. Al failed to use his lame-duck boss to the best of his advantage, a boss who would have zealously leapt at the opportunity to see more...
Those who oppose adding House library books to HOLLIS generally cite the current popularity of libraries qua living rooms; students use the Dunster library, Bernstein said, "not just to study but to be among their fellow House members and enjoy its peaceful atmosphere." But questions of atmosphere, circulation and House privacy can be addressed House by House; the benefits of bringing reserve reading to the Houses and enlivening the dusty House stacks seems the first task. If our hero--or someone like her--is reading, she should tell her House Masters or HoCo to voice these concerns and work...
Recently, however, that promise of character has become more explicit. Indeed, there seems far more talk of actions that might ensue based upon the strength of a candidate's character than of prior actions that imply them. Boasting of one's character has become the sine qua non of American political campaigns, in part because the President has provided a stunning example of one with all the makings of greatness who has been undone by a fatal flaw, his character...