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...same I played the game; when it was all over, I too would participate in the dream, help run it, steer its course. How I was to do this was up to me--society was more or less stuck with me. After all, I went to Harvard...
...goal of sensible social policy should be to channel this natural human desire in safer directions, not to snuff it out, which is neither possible nor desirable. Thinking about the drug problem in this way focuses special attention on the role of marijuana. Current policy steers people like you and me, fellow bourgeois TIME readers, away from marijuana and toward alcohol. Is that a good idea? I'm not sure. Legalizing marijuana might steer the users of crack, heroin, PCP, etc., toward grass instead. Whether that's a good idea seems much clearer...
...divorcing his wife of 34 years and the mother of his two children. Professionally, he faces a continuing struggle to close the chasm between Stanford's powerful scientific-technical community and its humanities disciplines. For all his accomplishments, Kennedy is modest about his role at the university: "I can steer it a bit, but I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to." Yet all signs are that the Kennedy touch will keep the tight ship that is Stanford moving handsomely forward...
Starting in the fall, the 100 students will be responsible for assembling a profitable portfolio of stocks, bonds and other investments. Professors Stephen Buser and Anthony Sanders plan to steer them into cautious investments. The goal is to match the percentage gain of the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Says Sanders: "Like any fund managers, if we lose a lot of money, we'll be terminated." Flunked...
...right. To decrease the drag on their sprawling invention, the plane's designers had dispensed with the hinged ailerons on the following edges of the wings that normally make turning easier. As a result, Daedalus responded sluggishly, to the stick's movements, making it more difficult for Kanellopoulos to steer a straight course...