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Charitable institutions like Harvard do not operate in a vacuum. In particular, they are susceptible to the same forces of competition and customer dissatisfaction as any other institution in a capitalist system. Charities compete for donations, resources and the talent to administer those resources. In the case of universities, they compete to entice the nation’s top students to enroll, and the intelligent administrators realize that they should also compete to offer the highest quality institutional experience as perceived by students. Put simply, a university administration that hopes to turn the undergrads of today into the alumni donors...
...anathema at the Pentagon, but the campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda has necessarily eliminated the only structure of centralized power in Afghanistan - along with the only enemy a working majority of Afghanistan could agree on. And if the U.S. decides that it cannot let the ensuing vacuum swallow the nation it boasted of liberating, it may have to let the Pentagon drop the increasingly arti ficial-looking distinction between missions against the designated enemy and missions in support of the designated ally...
...avoid contact with the people who knew me best, locking myself in my single to keep out my friends. As I spent more time alone, free from the social entanglements supposedly responsible for my flamboyance, I realized I wasn’t all that different from before. In the vacuum of isolation, I was still a dramatic finger-snapping flamer with limp wrists, a slight lisp and tight jeans. Werden was du bist, suggested Goethe—Become what you are. While my harassment in high school may have exaggerated my latent traits, it certainly didn’t create...
After dinner we meet friends at Vacuum Space (known as VS to those in the know). Phone (886-2) 2700-6535 to ask for a table in the vip room, set off from the dance floor by sliding glass doors that would suit a space pod. If you're still buzzing after the clubs close, Fuhsing South Road in southeast Taipei has food stalls open until the wee hours. Try the niurou laobing, a beef-filled pancake, or, if you're brave, a steaming hot pot of chou doufu, stinky bean curd...
...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...