Word: rejectionism
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Folds came first came into prominence in 1995 as the pianist, singer and primary songwriter for the ironically named Chapel Hill trio Ben Folds Five. With Darren Jessee on drums and Robert Sledge on bass, the group soon found a niche in the indie-rock scene. Their self-titled debut...
Even so, Musharraf had to couch his decision in religious terms, calling Pakistan a "fortress of Islam" and drawing inspiration from the Prophet Muhammad's example. Musharraf and his advisers are well aware of piety's place in Pakistan. There is a groundswell of people turning, or returning, to Islam...
It’s a vicious cycle. As students slog through the battery of applications and rejections, the desire to “get in” and the concomitant feeling that the whirligig of applications and rejections really does signify something important only grows. That leads to the superior...
Harvard students have arrived here mostly through competition, by excelling at a series of them, by being the ones that escaped rejection. Our senses of self are forged by winning; it’s why these competitions that don’t need to be so difficult have so much...
America should proceed with any military build-up in Pakistan carefully and under tight security, and it must be prepared to take defensive actions in the event of terrorist or guerrilla attacks against American positions. The U.S. is not deploying forces to secure or welcoming environments, as it did in...