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This means turning deliberately against not only our own selfishness but our own selflessness, too. Instead of rigorous four-week language immersion classes, we should wander around in foreign countries poor and planless. We should skip out on repairing homes on the Mississippi coastline and join in on traveling up the Natchez Trace Parkway in a truck. We should substitute out bringing esteemed literary editors coffee for scrawling our own poems on the backs of napkins...
...will encounter there. Otherwise just clump together with every other first-year you see and follow the mob. A sure-fire way to score a drop of Finlandia! Don’t forget you have a boat load of activities to go to this week. Rest assured you can skip Sex Signals. We’ll tell you right now, if sex signals anything, it’s that you really don’t go to Harvard. You may be accustomed to rating potential mates on a one through 10 scale, but at Harvard we operate in binary: They?...
...enough to capture and coax into service: myGoodDeed.org was launched as the micromemorial, a vehicle for people to use the day to do something for someone else. So far 284,185 people have pledged a good deed, to donate blood, take clothes to the Goodwill, knit socks for soldiers, skip lunch and give the money away...
...Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, Huckabee is trying to build momentum and even drawing comparisons with Pat Buchanan's populist run in 1992. He pointed to his popularity in Arkansas, a state that's 62% registered Democrat - though it has voted twice for Bush. When asked if he might skip New Hampshire to focus on more conservative states like Iowa and South Carolina, as suggested by my colleague Joe Klein, Huckabee bristled. "Joe would be shocked at the kind of response we're getting here. I fully expect that our campaign will do well enough to win New Hampshire...
...alone at age 15. Currently, gifted programs too often admit marginal, hardworking kids and then mostly assign field trips and extra essays, not truly accelerated course work pegged to a student's abilities. Ideally, school systems should strive to keep their most talented students through a combination of grade skipping and other approaches (dual enrollment in community colleges, telescoping classwork without grade skipping) that ensure they won't drop out or feel driven away to Nevada. The best way to treat the Annalisee Brasils of the world is to let them grow up in their own communities--by allowing them...