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...Applicants’ disappointment is entirely reasonable. They spent the time and money compiling a compelling application, never thinking that it might be doomed to languish, unread and in pieces, in a Harvard bureaucrat’s shredder. That sucks...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Fear and Self-Loathing | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...However, the political rule book has been stuffed into a shredder this year. Come summer of 2008, one or both parties will likely fire it from a confetti gun. A million fluttery pieces of conventional wisdom will swirl around a nominee or nominees once thought to be impossible: a woman, a black man, a guy in his 70s, a Mormon, a Hispanic, a Baptist preacher who used to be 100 lbs. overweight. Who knows? This is the year to bet on something unusual happening, and few things in politics are more unusual than Rudolph Giuliani - "America's mayor," the rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Rudy Smiling? | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...thing, it’s CGI, which seems like a cheap ploy to cash in on what the kids love these days. For another thing, the villains (space monsters) look goofy, and not nearly as terrifying or appropriate for the TMNT as guys like Shredder or Krang. I dunno. Maybe it’s just not aimed at my demographic anymore. I feel...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: And the Trailers Keep Coming! | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...SHREDDER They cost as little as $15, and you'll never have to worry about Dumpster divers, who sift the trash for discarded financial statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: 'Tis the Season for ID Theft | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...local lawmaker was doing. That's one reason Republican strategists say they plan to battle the national tide by localizing individual races. Localizing suggests drawing voters' attention to the issues that most affect them at home. But in practice, to political operatives it means putting an opponent through the shredder. Republicans plan to go after Democratic challengers with every bit of ammunition they can find, from old tax liens to long-ago votes to raise local taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans On The Run | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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