Word: reminders
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...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long...
...different ways, but what it comes down to is that the most ordinary conversation can cut like a knife. To begin with, the present tense has a whole new pitch. When you don't know how long you have, the simple words "I am" are enough to remind you of the unbearable lightness of being. With the past tense the problem is that you catch yourself saying, "I was..." and feel the tip of the wing of the angel of death. But the trickiest form of speech by far is the future. One of the first things lost to real...
...children out of the center because their co-payment will rise. What happens to the 2,700 children of the working poor who lose their subsidies altogether is one of the many imponderables as Wisconsin enters the next phase of its welfare experiment. But what child advocates continue to remind the Governor of is that while the W-2 program is susceptible to endless tinkering and adjustments, its effects on young children may be permanent...
...newborn child die. However, this tragedy does not lessen the fact that society failed them in a major way. For some reason these two college freshmen from affluent backgrounds felt that they had no one to turn to--not their parents, their friends, professors or counselors. This tragedy should remind us of the fragile state of all American youth. Instead of offering condemnation, we must increase societal support for our young people. EMILY LORISO Ithaca, New York...
...careers and egos over at Foggy Bottom, but he knew that Lake and Holbrooke despised each other and would be constantly sniping. Meanwhile, women's groups, incensed at a remark leaked by a White House aide relegating Albright to the "second tier," met twice with Gore to remind him and his boss how much they owed the soccer moms for their re-election. By then Albright was the one candidate to score at least a B on every criterion, piling up the fewest enemies or flaws. Still Clinton hesitated, turning over...