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...increase the pool of applicants to the college as a part of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program. This, however, is too large a task for too small a group of students. Invariably schools and even cities and geographic regions are left off the recruiters' lists. Recruiters are encouraged to repeat previous visits or go to schools where there's potential--i.e. a feeder school...
...flanking and circling back, Lincoln never lost sight of his fixed goal. He had to inch toward it or actually back off at times, but he was certain what it was. G.K. Chesterton has best expressed Lincoln's combination of fixed values and shifting tactics: "He loved to repeat that slavery was intolerable while he tolerated it, and to prove that something ought to be done while it was impossible to do it. This was probably very bewildering to his brother politicians, for politicians always whitewash what they do not destroy. But, for all that, this inconsistency beat the politicians...
Bush, who had no previous experience withbungee-cord jumping, promised he would leap everyThursday night, but did not repeat the stuntyesterday...
Council "insiders" and "outsiders" will emerge, arousing much unspoken jealousy. If enough council members haven't heard that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, a band that once cracked Casey's Top 40 will perform at a poorly-attended concert. Thousands of dollars that could have otherwise gone to student organizations will therefore end up in the hands of concert promoters sleazier than anyone who ever appeared on The Howard Stern Show. Before you know it, it will be time for another semester and another round of elections for executive board positions...
CHRONIC ACUTE ANXIETIES ABOUT SEX, VIOLENCE and contamination are bizarre and debilitating. Sufferers of so-called obsessive-compulsive disorder -- about 2% of populations worldwide -- constantly repeat such simple actions as washing their hands, manically checking doors and stoves, and hoarding newspapers. Scientists who have long suspected that a key problem is a malfunction in the brain's circuitry now have strong evidence to support that idea. According to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, successful behavior- modification therapy and drug treatment both have a marked effect on a central region of the brain that governs the learning...