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...think that Harvard is a far more welcome and opening environment now," she says. "There seems to be a lot more integration than in my era and it seems a friendlier place. It was much more sink-or-swim in our day and now it is more obviously caring...
...bound for Colorado, where he was scheduled to comfort the families of the Littleton shooting victims on the one-month anniversary of the tragedy, he rose halfway out of his seat and pumped his fist. "That's great," he said, pausing for a moment to let the political significance sink in. "It's great...
...right to choose to be citizens of the State wherein they reside.... The States, however, do not have any right to select their citizens.... The Fourteenth Amendment, like the Constitution itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, 'framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division...
...party, they had these big casks of ice," Helgen says. "Someone came and dumped the ice into the sink...
...what is the glorious Resume Contest award? A plum position at a fancy New York firm? A paid political vacation in Washington, D.C.? "Three winners," the flier promises, "one from each year, will receive a $50.00 prize!" Here our hearts sink. After all, it was merely months ago that certain companies, running their own private resume contests, were offering a $50,000 prize. (The superfluous zeroes on the poster are part of the tease.) And then we get to the fine print: "As part of a larger research project on career choices by organizational researchers, a resume contest will...