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...wooden tables under makeshift awnings, merchants peddle not just pork and fish but also Japanese televisions and VCRs, South Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase a home, an outrageous capitalist sin in a country where private property is ideological anathema. "You can buy anything and everything in the market," says Park, a trader who sells televisions she brings in from China. (Like all North Koreans that TIME talked to for this story, Park spoke on condition that her real name...
...seniors who do recruiting are so repugnant to some of us because they have committed the cardinal sin of failing to disguise their ambition. They want lucrative jobs, and they want social status, and they want a nice apartment—and they advertise all of these wants with their Harvard portfolios and their pinstriped suits. Of all the transformations that Harvard students undergo during their time here, the most striking is their abandonment of ambition. Each freshman class, after all, is clotted with valedictorians, class presidents, math league champions, and serious athletes. There is a tacit consensus as early...
...attributed to Kerry’s patrician upbringing, but inasmuch as Bush was similarly privileged I believe that Kerry’s ambition was the likelier culprit for Americans’ unease with him. You sense that Bush is the beneficiary of circumstance, that he has not committed the sin of wanting something very badly. He drank! He did drugs! His youthful indiscretions and his youthful aimlessness made him seem like a regular, ambitionless guy. (And who needs ambition when you have a sense of entitlement?). Kerry’s ambition, meanwhile, you could see hewn into every anxious line...
...boasts four players with 19 points or more, but, perhaps more importantly, the squad is, much like the Crimson, infrequently penalized. Dartmouth averages 16.1 minutes in the sin bin per game, and thus for Harvard—a team that has gone through prolonged periods this season relying greatly on its power-play production—the battle is one to be won at full strength...
...also working in ideas familiar to the Roman culture that surrounded them." Thus the Nativity stories provide a fascinating look at how each of the two men who agreed on so much--that Jesus was the Christ come among us and was crucified and resurrected and took away sin--could be inspired to begin his story in similar, yet hardly identical ways...