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...strategy, Galston said.“It’s hard to predict the future but...what the Democratic Party needs over the next three years is a really robust internal dialogue about the way it works. It is not a problem that you can sweep under the rug,” he said.Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said college students could benefit from the study’s application of past lessons to the present.“College students who are concerned with politics should definitely read it. It offers...
...that many of these problems can be dramatically improved with strong diplomatic efforts and increased funding. But such extensive efforts require a lot of public pressure and support. And that cannot happen when we push our nuclear past, no matter how harsh a reality it might be, under the rug. Instead, public awareness must dramatically increase—and what better way to do it than by commemorating the horrors of nuclear warfare on the anniversaries of our two nuclear attacks...
...virtually the same rate, to $35,000. Dr. Darrell (Skip) Campbell, a transplant surgeon and the chief of staff, says the new openness has the added advantage of allowing doctors to explore what happened. "The natural reaction when something goes awry," he says, "is to sweep it under the rug. [But then] you don't find out what the problems...
...highlight of the pre-show fashion show may have come courtesy of the Florida-based TV crew stationed next to me along the perimeter of the ruby rug. They nabbed a small but well-built black gentleman—with what I can only describe as a retainer in his mouth made of little diamond studs—incredibly familiar-looking and clearly an athlete, for a two-minute interview...
...will kill her (Welch's mother died when he was eleven): "He was overcome with the beauty and sadness of his own singing ... He wasn't going to help her. He was going to cry." In The Trout Stream, a child confronts a man in a wheelchair: "The plaid rug across his knees made me wonder fearfully what the legs could be like underneath. Were they all withered away? Were they like drumsticks when the chicken has been eaten...