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...says these organizations are experiencing a "perfect storm" of dramatic cutbacks and an expanding need for services. "These groups desperately need assistance with a crisis of their own," says Glaves, whose organization is the charitable arm of the Chicago Bar Association. "Programs that help them and provide associates with real-world experience benefit everyone involved...
...intellect we're afraid that he may not be able to conduct monetary policy with the virtuosity of a maestro. - despite receiving mostly approval and praise, Bernanke's nomination drew some criticism from Richard Yamarone, director of economic research for Argus Research Corporation, for Bernanke's seeming lack of "real-world" experience. (CNNMoney.com, October...
...reason so many people were left slack-jawed by the Obama budget was not that they disagreed with his premise that health-care costs are out of control or that energy independence is desirable or that better schools are important to the future of the economy. It was the real-world knowledge that financial calamity has not magically transformed our slow-moving, reform-resistant, cantankerous government into a peaceful, streamlined, problem-tackling machine. Every one of Obama's reforms will mean bigger political fights, consume more intellectual bandwidth and require more bravery from politicians than Washington has witnessed anytime...
...biology concentrator from Adams House, Joseph P. Shivers ’10 tends to draw cartoons about Harvard rather than anything that would require him to follow real-world news. He would like to thank his family and friends for humoring him when he shows them his drawings, and especially Ariel Shaker for suggesting this in the first place. Samuel L. Clemens is a third-semester freshman concentrating in the Alphabet, with a secondary field in Two-Digit Numbers. He enjoys masturbatory self-description. Also, gargoyles. His comics focus on anthropomorphic abstractions, such as “loyalty?...
...because scientists failed to sufficiently remove clinging soil, iron levels appeared unusually high in certain vegetables like spinach (which gave rise to the myth that it contained exorbitant amounts of iron - a notion further propagated by the popular cartoon character, Popeye). Then again, good historical data provides the only real-world evidence of changes in foods over time, and such data does exist - one farm in Hertfordshire, England, for example, has archived its wheat samples since...