Word: waverers
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Applying to Harvard was the result of chance. I never planned on it: I was determined to attend Duke, because of its renowned writing program and because it had a reputation as a fun place. And I did not waver until the Christmas I flew out to Boston to see my sister, who was then a junior at Boston University. I spent two weeks there, and on the last day, we toured the Harvard campus. There was something aboutwalking around the Yard for the first time thatevoked all manner of intellectual fantasy for me.I imagined the classes, the philosophicaldiscussions...
...side of his persona, not just another temporary detour. The President seems convinced that, whatever the short-term cost, voters will reward him for being on the right side of the historic debate on balancing the budget. Others, like Representative David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, suspect he will eventually waver. Says Obey: "Most of us learned some time ago that if you don't like the President's position on a particular issue, you simply need to wait a few weeks." If nothing else, Clinton may gain just by proving skeptics like Obey wrong...
...this irony, this self-awareness, has drained us. As the result of our creativity, we are left, my friends, in a world of wavering, accelerated only by our continued reliance on instrumental reason. We don't just waver. When looking for the answers, we stagger, stumble, falter and fumble. We are stuck. Even here at Harvard, my classmates, we've become tired of ambition and its costs. Yes, sitting here among us are some future senators, maybe a curator for the Met or the MFA, a few novelists and certainly some George Soroses. All right then, many George Soroses...
...doctor-patient relationship is very difficult to characterize," Ryan said. "We tend to waver between treating doctors as car mechanics...
...Gulf War was a success because it was clear to all that the U.S. was going to liberate Kuwait even if it had to go it alone. Join us if you will, but we won't waver. They joined. Lesser powers do so when convinced of American will...