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Years of pent-up frustration under Milosevic's blighting misrule had finally erupted in a tumultuous showdown, as each new success taught Serbs to see they had the power to change their future. The revolution ran at cyberspeed from the disputed election two weeks ago, ending victoriously in the dizzying events of one day. Just like that, the Serbs took back their country and belatedly joined the democratic tide that swept away the rest of Eastern Europe's communist tyrants a decade ago. The West gloried in the exit of the man who fueled savage European conflicts for a decade...
...boiler-plate hymn to the hardest teacher in school. But a rare description of a teacher who "was big, but not overweight ... like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion - "she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself" - sent them straight for the admit stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...
Most who have taken the course will recite a litany of complaints: The class is too big, the lectures are boring, it's difficult to find a teaching fellow who can explain things well, the course is taught completely in section, the problem sets are busywork and the lectures fail to capture student interest...
Raised as we are on the legends of Honest Abe and the implacable T.R., we are taught to revere, above all else, the character of our leaders. Indeed, character is that thing which we most want them to give us. Our would-be leaders, in turn, do not tend to make promises so much of bread but of brilliance, bravado, and derring-do. They, in short, don't promise anything as much as they promise themselves...
Contrary to your claim, research at HIID was, in fact, "directly passed to graduate [and] undergraduate students." For years, virtually all of the courses taught on development issues throughout the University (including the economics department, the Kennedy School of Government, and the School of Public Health) have been taught by staff of either HIID...