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...Gates' leadership and personality that make others believe the Duke scholar is the best person to build an Afro-Am Department at Harvard. Peers most frequently refer to him as an "entrepreneur," "energetic" and "cosmopolitan...
...confidential services offer the kind of comfort, caring and guidance once sought from relatives, neighbors and churches. The callers are typically seeking help with problems that include alcoholism, loneliness, marital stress and layoffs. The help-line workers provide some comforting words, make an initial assessment of the problem and refer callers to professional aid ranging from self-help groups and marriage counseling to psychiatric hospitalization in emergencies...
Beneath the surface exoticism, Lucas still betrays quite a few rough edges. Would any British memsahib, in 1936, refer to an Indian stranger as "cute" ? Or any native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., talk of "open((ing)) your schmucky gob"? Does the world really need another lecherous British officer dithering, "I say, Lorna, I'm terribly keen on you"? At times, with their perfumed dissolutes and frustrated shrinks, the stories read like crude distillations of the Anglo-Indo-American vignettes of screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, or even like bite-size appetizers for the full-course feast of a Salman Rushdie novel...
...would be difficult if not impossible to justify a war costing thousands of casualties for such a small sliver of territory. Moreover, since that sliver approximates Iraq's initial demands on Kuwait, Saddam could plausibly claim that he had won what he really wanted. Some American and allied officials refer to this as "the nightmare scenario" since they think it represents Saddam's best chance of escaping punishment and remaining a menace for the future. But Saddam might see an even better choice...
...variety of "tips" are employed during our admissions process to insure fair treatment for Asian Americans. In addition to the fact that a "tip" can provide a positive reason to admit a candidate, we also refer to a "tip" for candidates who, for a wide variety of reasons, are given special consideration in the admissions process. That special consideration may take the form of recruitment, through, for examples, the use of direct mail to encourage Asian-American students to apply, travel by Asian-American undergraduates to make presentations at high schools where there are large numbers of prospective Asian-American...