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...official member of the newest incoming class. Not only were you suddenly a college student after four long years in secondary-school purgatory: You were a Harvard student! For that brief moment, the modesty that you exuded as you waited nervously for that letter to arrive flew out the window, along with the inferior acceptance letters of Princeton and Yale. For a split second, you felt like...
...their European excursion, others as a transition between the raucous end-of-year celebrations and the lucrative consulting position that has been on their mind since the congratulatory phone call from McKinsey. In the midst of it all, maybe some of the modesty and perspective that escaped out the window so long ago as that letter arrived will return home for good...
...caucus to register their initial preference. That’s an easy way to meet the valid criticism that caucuses disenfranchise people who can’t attend.Caucuses could also be held on Saturday nights instead of week nights, or alternatively voting could be allowed during a longer window of time to enable greater participation.But big changes to the nominating processes rarely win approval. They are fine for rules freaks and debating societies to discuss but the fact remains that, in politics, most change is evolutionary, not revolutionary.David Yepsen is the political columnist for the Des Moines Register...
Every night, before sleep, I admire the water, the indigo island against an India ink sky. In a hundred years someone else will stand before this window. She will notice how the water looks different every day, how it is also the same. She will wonder if anyone ever lived on the island. She will write the answer in poetry...
...other testimony, it was shown that gunfire shattering the car's front window could have caused Isnora to believe shots were coming from inside the car. Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman said the prosecution failed to refute that evidence or any witness that claimed the contrary. In his statement, he said that "at times, the testimony just didn't make sense...