Word: usual
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...this enthusiasm, the usual biases seem to be absent. Old fogies like me are reaching for the classics and so are young guns; 300, the film about Thermopylae, is based on a graphic novel. Conservatives sup at the classic cup; Victor Davis Hanson, a scholar of ancient warfare, is Dick Cheney's favorite historian. (One of the lessons of the Peloponnesian War, Hanson writes, is that "resolute action" brings "lasting peace." Ah, yes.) And liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique...
...Parents seem to be acutely aware of what sort of environment their children are entering when they come to Harvard. Amid all the usual anxieties about their kids’ growing up and moving out—will they succeed, will they make friends, will the linens I ordered from Ikea be long enough, and so on—there’s an extra fear for some...
...group like DormAid does not, such as permission to load and unload buses on campus. Because airport shuttles are a highly useful and cost-saving service for students, the University should do what it can to foster entrepreneurial success in this area, even if this means waiving its usual guidelines on student businesses. This would be especially wise because another alternative—for the University to have its paid staff organize shuttles—would be a far more expensive way to achieve the same result...
...more expensive in America, and the pinch is already being felt by some of China's manufacturers of textiles and other low-end merchandise. The annual trade fair in Guangzhou, a city at the vanguard of China's march toward capitalism over the past two decades, was overcrowded as usual last October with prospective foreign buyers of toys, clothing, shoes and handbags. But there was a difference, say businessmen who attended. "A lot of purchasers came to negotiate, but they didn't want to pay the higher prices," says Zhen Dahui, an executive for an umbrella-and-handbag manufacturer...
...Harvard’s ritual deluge of flesh poured through the Yard without a hitch this reading period, heralding the usual frigid sausage fest. And as usual, there was a distinct lack of female participants...