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...Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...
...deal with the unseemly issue of self-segregation? Perhaps if the administration is intent on eradicating any semblance of a minority community in house life, they should at least ponder the idea of a cultural center. Randomization shouldn't be accepted by undergrads simply because it's the status quo...
Question the status quo: That seems to be the conclusion, whether your issue is grapes or capitalism or a crappy summer job. We've learned and forgotten a lot of stuff in four years. But finally, we've gleaned from our experiences with this Harvard achievement rat race one thing: the smartest people in the whole affair are the ones who remember to keep thinking...
...Hiring committees tend to hire what and whom they recognize as being `like' themselves," Pellegrini says. "This tends then to [affirm the status quo] both in terms of disciplinary approaches and research interests and maybe even in the sorts of people that get hired...
...duck if not a near-death experience? Why can't he offend the power players? He doesn't need them anymore--unless he's planning to build a really, really big presidential library. He should be going after the producers of drivel, the teachers unions who protect the status quo, the fat cats to whom he apologized for raising taxes. Instead, how about criticizing them for their wretched excess--$1,000 bottles of wine, $250 cigars, Versailles-like mansions? Or reversing the appalling gap between their income and those who haven't got on the Clinton gravy train...