Word: rule
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...photocopier and getting a pleasing green light, your ID is checked against records, and the time and location of your swipe is recorded. Of course, the records are kept confidential, and unless the Harvard Police or Ad Board has good reason to believe that you've broken a major rule or committed a crime, nobody will ever know that you swiped into someone else's dorm that night you'd rather forget...
...leader is in the process of cutting an accommodating prefab deal--just as he did during last year's budget negotiations--some conservatives, like Inhofe, are already rebelling. To be done with the unpleasant duty of the trial, they claim, Lott is running roughshod over the Constitution and the rule of law, all in the service of rescuing the President. "Trent cannot be perceived as Bill Clinton's savior," says a top G.O.P. leadership aide. "This is high stakes for Lott," says Sheila Burke, top aide to Bob Dole for years and now executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School...
...realistic goals. If you're 50, 30 or 20 lbs. overweight, don't even think about losing them before Valentine's Day. It's not only unlikely but unhealthy as well. A good rule of thumb is no more than a pound or two a week...
Probably not. Instead, we'll reach again for a time-tested moral notion, one sometimes called the Golden Rule and which Immanuel Kant, the millennium's most meticulous moralist, gussied up into a categorical imperative: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; treat each person as an individual rather than as a means to some...
...they were doing their best to bring bipartisanship back from the brink in time for the trial. Both men were optimistic about a full Senate get-together Friday morning, but the sticking point still stuck -- Daschle held firm to his caucus's stand against witnesses, while Lott refused to rule them out. The "98 other senators" that Lott referred to so ominously will have a lot to talk about...