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...hope of Californians is that their importance in the general election is mirrored in the primaries. The hope of Democrats is that California will weed out the national candidate from the parochial ones...
Most conspicuous in this town are the empty, weed-splotched lots where bright, middle-class summer houses used to stand. In a city of low wooden tenements, these lots just make the casinos stand out even more...
...situation he describes of "hiding" the colloquia from undergraduates is almost comical. The Department does its utmost to weed out any novices, thus assuring that only future professionals remain, and then tries to keep them from the research for which they've been (presumably) so well prepared! It is ironic that a group which only days ago announced its intention to encourage Physics concentrators to become high-school teachers does its best to weed out all but future physics researchers. Michael S. Beauchamp...
...sense physics is like a language. The students who speak Spanish at home will do better in Spanish A than the one who never took Spanish before. This is no mark of genius. The idea that the Romance Languages Department should weed students out by using poor teaching materials or lecturing too fast for students to comprehend is ridiculous. Almost every Harvard student has the potential to learn fluent Spanish...
...time prove their worth. In any case, practicality demands that the government retain at least part of the old bureaucracy in the interest of survival. "What can we do?" asked Corneliu Bogdan, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "There is no question of vengeance." But, he added, "we hope gradually to weed out all the top officials who supported Ceausescu." That kind of compromise made many newly liberated Rumanians uneasy about a potential alliance between the army and the bureaucracy -- and a possible new dictatorship in the making. Said Doina Cornea, a longtime dissident and a founder of the National Christian Peasant...