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...Bush and his conservative legislature is that their emphasis on testing and vouchers--and controversial tax breaks for businesses that fund scholarships to send students to private schools--seems out of step with the peninsula's apparent new desire to invest in public education. "They're in an ideological rut," says McBride, who pledges to raise revenue for public schools with a cigarette-tax increase...
Keith, self-proclaimed “public citizen” and senior vice president for development and communications at the YMCA of Honolulu, took a circuitous route to Penguin Putnam, beginning in mid-September 1997 at a meeting of the Honolulu Rotary Club. Keith was in a rut with his writing. After attending the Maui Writers’ Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow...
...final clubs stuck in this anachronistic rut,” said Rebeccah G. Watson ’04, RUS co-president. “We expect them [final clubs] to move along with the changing tides in the University [to better reflect the changes of the student body in this half of the century...
...word represents both the hallmark of a quality baseball team and a potentially devastating rut. A club on a good roll can dispatch opponents with routine efficiency—string hits together consistently, make the necessary plays in the field—until whole stretches of the season disappear into blurs of modest high-fives...
...Harvard campus. “When I was abroad, I felt so alive. I did everything. I went to bed happy and woke up psyched about the day,” says Michael T. Peller ’02. “I find myself getting in a rut now at Harvard because the students here are rather unfriendly. People are too busy to say hello, too busy to stop and enjoy themselves. The people I met while studying abroad were generally upbeat, easygoing people, especially the people I met while traveling. I miss that the most...