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...Harvard milieu' may just not sustain an honor code on any terms. The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive...
There is still hope that archaeologists can solve this mystery, as well as dozens of other unanswered questions about the Olmec. Most of the sites have barely been studied, and with good reason. Annual floods smother the land with thick layers of silt that dry into impenetrable clay. What's more, says Diehl, "about 80% of the entire Olmec territory in southern Mexico has been converted in the past 20 years from jungle to cow pastures and sugar-cane fields. There's so much vegetation on the surface that you can't just pick up pottery. Generally...
Then again, maybe not. The rich benefits that have made Europe a sweet place to work have clogged its economic arteries. Call it Eurosclerosis--the combination of a staggering tax burden and a blanket of regulations that smother new businesses and entrepreneurship. Symptoms: Europe's unemployment rate of 11% is twice as high as the U.S.'s, and its job-creation chart is a flat line. Over the past three years, the U.S. has created 8.4 million new jobs, Europe none. Significantly, many of those new American jobs pay higher than average wages, and as many as 60% are managerial...
Neither score was particularly beautiful--on the first, Saint Andrea Blakeley faked out a couple defenders and took a weak mid-range shot that somehow got past sophomore goaltender Jen Bowdoin. On the second goal, a loose puck that Bowdoin tried to smother squirted into...
...novels that came to market after McMillan's well-written book struck gold are any indication, it's also trash oriented, no matter what ethnic group it's aiming at. What a tragedy if African Americans' understandable desire to see themselves on the big screen becomes an excuse to smother all of us in slick Hollywood trash...