Word: successful
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...hardly surprising that so many people showed up to hear the billionaire philanthropist speak. After all, investment banking is one of the most popular fields for graduating seniors and economics is the most popular concentration at Harvard. Soros spoke at a campus divided between seniors pursuing economic success and those pursuing social ideals...
...Harvard speech, he said: "When success takes precedence over integrity and politics is dominated by money the political process deteriorates fueling the resentment against politics and government in general in a self-reinforcing process. The situation is even worse when we look at the world at large...
...then, does the Pudding year after year remain all-male? Three arguments have been consistently put forward: for the sake of tradition, because its success depends upon this and because integration would cause alumni to withdraw financial support...
Which brings us to the argument that the show's success is somehow dependent on all-male casting. Believing instead that the show's attractiveness is based largely on the polished talent displayed, I suggest that its humor arises chiefly from six elements: transvestism, sight gags, word play, non sequitors, wit and sexual humor...
...from a foreign-policy walk in the park away from his Washington troubles, Clinton's visit to Gaza may be the trickiest trip of his presidency. "His whole investment here is at risk of going down the tubes," says Beyer. "The visit will be hailed as a great success as long as nothing catastrophic happens." Clinton certainly won't want to be reminded that he's not the first U.S. president under threat of impeachment to make a Mideast peace pilgrimage. Richard Nixon visited Cairo in early 1974, and -- enough said...