Word: school
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...freshmen were all looking for a good first look at Ivy competition," said Gustafsson. "Going into meets like Brown [which is next weekend] we wanted to have a feel for the atmosphere and meet formats, since they are so different high school...
...both sides use the bitter fight for fund raising and don't want to find areas of compromise). He even finds a place for stubbornly local issues such as education. Move against corporate welfare, he says, and you can free up cash to help poor kids attend better schools. He suggests putting an end to $5.4 billion in sugar, ethanol and gas-and-oil subsidies and spending it on a three-year program to test school vouchers...
Bush won't talk about Talbott specifically, but he will say "there is a certain East Coast attitude," an "intellectual arrogance" that he "didn't find very appealing" at Yale or, later, Harvard Business School. He suggests that the intellectual elite at Yale dismissed him as inferior, that there was, in his words, a "'You're from Texas, therefore' attitude" he resented. "And I still believe," he says, "that just because somebody's got an Ivy League title by their name doesn't make them smarter than anybody else...
...ambivalence about his Ivy League experience, Bush picked up his successful management skills at Harvard Business School. That's where, according to classmate Peter Gebhard, the future politician showed strength in classes dealing with "human behavior in organizations." Early in his time there, Professor Harry L. Hansen warned Bush and his fellow students that they would be inundated with more work than they could handle. Hansen had a higher purpose than assigning punishing amounts of work: the real goal, he explained, was to force students to learn how to separate what was important from what wasn't and then focus...
...follow the logic. Yet Abdi's words are more encouraging than the all-too-familiar ones scrawled across the wall of the former U.S. embassy. The pine-shaded, 27-acre compound has been occupied since the early '80s by Revolutionary Guards, who use part of it as a high school. Next to a mural of the Statue of Liberty, styled as a ghoulish skeleton, is the freshly painted warning: WE WILL MAKE AMERICA FACE A SEVERE DEFEAT...