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...choose to work in a bike shop for a summer instead of doing research with a professor, will that really ruin the rest of your life? If you take a year off to travel around the Himalayas with a backpack while your corporate friends earn $40,000 their first year, does that mean you are a failure? If you work in a non-career-track job before you decide whether to go to graduate school, does that mark you as a loser...
...that he is inclined to run, but that the Russian voters will have to wait a while for an official announcement. Gorbachev feels that he could unite reformers, and carry the banner of change himself. He accuses Yeltsin's regime of "bringing people to poverty and the country to ruin under the slogans of reform." Gorbachev says he has some success collecting the one million signatures required to appear on the ballot. but even if he somehow fulfills the requirements before the April 16 deadline, he faces almost no support from Russians that view the former communist party boss...
...these "condemned prior to judged" politicians. How can we fairly assess Hillary Rodham Clinton's status without falling into one of the two media-produced camps? These days, it seems one must either join the majority in condemning Mrs. Clinton as a corrupt, adversarial Jezebel leading her husband into ruin or fight with the underdogs as a staunch Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter. These are the two ends of the spectrum, carefully constructed for us by the press...
...Russia's rich gas industry, Chernomyrdin, 57, was chosen by Yeltsin as Prime Minister in 1992. Discontent with the government runs so high that his incumbency has proved to be a burden. He should count himself lucky if his party finishes in third place. A complete rout could ruin his chances to replace Yeltsin as the standard-bearer of reform in June should the President decide...
...would like to call upon my classmates to put down their protest signs and pick up their school-books. If you want to ruin your own lives and educations, fine. But please stay well away from the lives of those of us who are self-aware and humble enough to recognize the limits of our abilities...