Word: rigorousity
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The Iraqis I see in Baghdad this week bear little resemblance to those I met before the 1991 Gulf War. The same faces, yes; the same names: Sadoun, Ala, Sa'ad, Mahoud, middle-class government officials, merchants, staffers at international companies. Right after the Gulf War, these were the people...
Democracy is epitomized by the bazaar or the mall, and this is what the university is becoming. It wants to be inclusive, indiscriminate and accommodating toward every predilection. The university thus admits students less and less according to rigorous standards of individual excellence, and more and more according to the...
On the Myers-Briggs personality-type assessment system used by management consultants, Gore tests out as a mild introvert, which his flesh-pressing boss could never be. Gore loves preparing for meetings with foreign leaders, attending Clinton's national-security briefings, or patiently explaining chaos theory and fractals to staff...
But today nothing has changed. The 2-to-1 split persists. A million more drug-treatment slots are still urgently needed; an additional 1.5 million chronic drug abusers are on probation with no treatment available. And antidrug-education programs in schools have grown in number but not much in effectiveness...
Already, the chances at success for these four women look better than those of their predecessor. Three of them have Citadel family ties, and all four hope to avoid the extraordinary glare of the spotlight that contributed to Faulkner's demise. As Robert Black, who served as a lawyer for...