Word: various
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than one potential hero has been crushed by the crowd of pretenders to the throne. They get shoved aside in political primaries, dumped in the circular file at the offices of various publication, passed up for professorships and passed over for jobs. And the "heroes" who do make it, or at least the pretenders to that title, have been installed as our role models--at the expense of people who excel primarily at softening that ground. Our professors are leaders in their fields first, teachers of their craft second. The Kennedy School itself is staffed almost entirely...
...really like it here at Duke," Aldrich says."The various assets are different but thedifference wasn't great enough...
...Auburn Street is the pinnacle of this violation. A broad open catwalk with unlimited perches presents various balconies with premium views: the Office for the Arts, Let's Go, Claverly steps, the Lampoon, the Spee, the Phoenix and the Fly among others. Hillel? Don't tell me M. Foucault wouldn't have something to say about that...
This solution is weak. By this half-hearted arrangement, it appears the council wants to claim it is listening to the student voice without having to bear the pesky inconvenience of a campus-wide debate on the various options the council's ad hoc committee proposed. Various plans would earmark the money for Springfest, student groups or a new sound system for the council to lend to student groups. Another proposal would have the council make a symbolic donation toward a new student center. Students deserve to participate in this debate and should have a direct say in which option...
...have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury in Maryland. You have Julie Hiatt Steele. You have the whole Kathleen Willey situation. You have the President's possible civil and criminal liabilities. You have the various investigations into Ken Starr. You have Webb Hubbell's tax evasion..." You have the idea...