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Traditionally, presidents, freed from electoral considerations, have used their farewell addresses to try to steer the nation on a specific course or openly warn it about problems that they see as particularly important. In the first farewell address, George Washington warned the nation not to involve itself in entangling European alliances. Americans took these words so seriously that isolationists cited them decades afterwards...
...problems toward a more sensible approach to dealing with it. Mere slandering and name-calling does not lend credibility to the moral high ground on which critics of the final clubs claim to be standing. Quite the opposite, their moralistic approach has, if anything, undermined their attempts to steer the final clubs toward reform and has fallen short of generating intelligent discussion that would, at the very least, foster a better understanding of the final clubs and the role they play in the Harvard social community...
Harvard's aggressive, full-pool pressure should give the team a big advantage over its opponents in this weekend's competition--if the squad can steer away from ejections and man-down situations...
...this happening to you, ask questions about the job they have available, and discuss your qualifications for it. Don't be passive. Don't answer questions in monosyllables. Be informative, direct, and succinct in your responses. Steer the interviewer into discussion of your interest in the company...
...also stoked the Governor's presidential ambitions, persuading him in 1986 to make the race and drafting a comprehensive plan, complete with themes -- good jobs at good wages, the Massachusetts Miracle -- that would steer Dukakis through the primaries. When Sasso resigned a year ago -- for not telling Dukakis that he had been responsible for sending reporters an attack video against Joe Biden -- even Dukakis underestimated how crippling the loss would be. The primary campaign, after a three-week dip, chugged along according to Sasso's old game plan. It was as if the Celtics had lost Larry Bird...