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...Lewis and a former colleague of Nathans at Duke agree that she is strict with first-year students who break the rules...
...inspirational aphorisms, Aucoin took a swipe at the National Rifle Association: "Everyone knows me and sports are like the N.R.A. and intelligence--it's an oxymoron (and boy, are they morons)." The resulting volume of mail suggests there are a lot of people who subscribe to both a strict interpretation of the Second Amendment and a publication that seeks to arm them with the appropriate shade of lipstick. Among the letters were several death threats...
...high school college counselor was a strict adherent to the more is better application philosophy. This meant I not only sent each school on my list a bonus letter of recommendation, additional essay and academic paper - those were givens - but my mother unearthed our family tree from the attic so I could find out the precise relation of a great-great cousin of some remove who'd graduated from the school at the top of my list. I promptly listed him in the alumni section of the application...
Almost every article on campus social life focuses on the issues of the final clubs, partying and bar-hopping set of students and their complaints about the lack of parties, the strict drinking rules and the dating scene. This group is only a subset of Harvard students, yet we hear exclusively about their particular social concerns...
...Bush court would uphold what our founding fathers wanted--a country in which the rights of the individual were upheld, and one where states and local governments had jurisdiction over their people. A Bush court would protect the rights of individuals. Bush's appointees would uphold a strict interpretation of the Constitution, not excepting certain freedoms, such as religion, while upholding others, such as privacy, as has been typical of Clinton appointees. Bush would be a president who maintains that the people know what is best for the people and that no one needs a government dictating every facet...