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...number of competing schools alone precluded a dual meet, but even so, Harvard was not looking for stiff competition. Rather, Crimson coach Dave Fish ’72 indicated that he wanted his players to experiment, relax, recharge—and most of all, he wanted to give all 11 of his traveling players some valuable match experience...
Globalization's defenders reply by saying, Relax: it will never happen. This counterblast (much of it in a paper written by Columbia University's Jagdish Bhagwati, today's unchallenged intellectual champion of free trade) has two parts. First, free trade's defenders say, it is unrealistic to assume that China or India will suddenly develop a monstrous capacity in high-end, high-technology innovation. "The oft repeated argument that India and China will quickly educate 300 million of their citizens to acquire sophisticated and complex skills," write Bhagwati and his colleagues, "borders on the ludicrous. The educational sectors in those...
...believe the police officers also have the Buddha nature. If you radiate joy, compassion, understanding, peace and calm, they will be able to appreciate it and profit from it." He said he planned to visit detained Buddhist dissidents as well as official church leaders, and hoped his visit would relax the official attitude toward religion...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing...
...loneliness of losing the lives they had with their parents, families, partners and children. As a 21-year-old college student who comes to Florida once yearly, I am expected to run to the beach, tan by the pool and generally kick back my polished feet and relax. Instead, I come to Florida and wonder about the people who preceded the pension checks, and whether we, too, are destined for deep loneliness down the road...