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...scenario thus painted, the paper also offers a way out, offering alternatives to life in the boot-camp trenches, including spending more "down-time" in early childhood, eschewing educational vacations for "old-fashioned summer jobs," and not choosing a college "simply based on brand name or reputation." But the surest road to relaxation, it says, is to take a year off before college. It may also be a good path to admission, and will surely be interpreted that way by educators, parents and kids who are doubtless already reading between the document's lines to divine parcels of admissions wisdom...
After Eagles back Katherine Murphy was taken off the field with an injury following a scrum in front of the BC net, the Crimson was awarded a free kick from the left sideline. Stewart, who likely has the Crimson's surest foot on long kicks, lined up from 45 yards out and blasted the ball all the way into the far upper corner...
...squeezed onto a CD's liner notes. They are also talking about doing something about their pricing structure. "It won't be $16.99 an album," promises Jennings. Jeff Alger, who works on e-books for Microsoft Reader, believes bringing down the cost of CDs is key. "The surest protection against piracy," he says, "is to make sure there's a high volume of quality, low-priced items on the market...
Nobody in public life, certainly no candidate, talks that way anymore because this is a time of self-protective thinking. Candidates play defensive baseball to avoid errors, which is the surest way to make them. It is regarded as unsophisticated to discuss the fundamental nature of the country--either demonstrated or wished for--so stump speeches consist of exquisitely balanced references to particular problems. Centrist politics leads to guarded expression...
...recently become a devotee of the doctrine that says that the surest way to make God laugh is to tell him your plans. Likewise, in an interesting corollary, life is what happens while you're making other plans. I won't claim to have invented either phrase, but I deeply believe that of all people in the world, Harvard seniors are most in need of this advice...