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...education system and serve as an invaluable tool in correcting the inequality in academic performance. Students from low-income and minority backgrounds will be given the opportunity to catch up to their peers while also enjoying a direct monetary benefit from studying hard. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is a powerful concept. This truth will be revealed, not desecrated, by the fruits that will be borne of these pecuniary rewards...
...most coddled canines. (He's on my lap right now as I write this because a loud thunderstorm is spooking him.) But there was also something a bit over the top about the process - something that ultimately made me want to shout, "This is a dog, for God's sake, not the next Dalai Lama...
...Hays made her appearance. Models gathered to receive instructions while the designers took their seats among adoring fans and fashionistas. After a confusing explanation of “walk away from the judges, pose, walk towards the judges, pose, and then sit down” (repeated thrice for the sake of the models) M. “MC” Aidan Kelly ’08 gave the cue for the music—and the show—to begin...
...steps to address it. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi’s discussions about U.S. and Chinese economic policies are much more likely to result in positive economic change, including re-evaluation of the yuan, than is heavy-handed congressional legislation. For the sake not only of the U.S. and China’s future relations, but of the global economy at large, Congress should abandon the currency bills that it is currently considering...
...time. That is highly unlikely, but just a couple of decades ago, so was the prospect that the ice caps would melt. The British claim, and those that are sure to follow, amounts to a long-shot move that enables resorting to a future temptation. For the sake of Antarctica, let's hope we've got beyond oil and gas before that temptation ever arises...