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Jindal, the son of Punjabi immigrants, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and was tapped to lead Louisiana's gargantuan health department at the absurdly young age of 24. Over the next seven years, Jindal headed up one of the state's university systems and served as an assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Bush Administration. It's the kind of résumé for which the term wunderkind exists...
...undergraduate population “set off on one of life’s great adventures,” to quote eight of the many, many words in University President Drew G. Faust’s welcome letter to the community last week. And while Faust’s gargantuan letter might have sent some running for the hills, FM went in search of past presidential letters to see how Faust’s latest e-novel stacks up. Faust: 1,822 words Beginning with a romanticized view of the typical Harvard student, and detailing… well...
...obligation. What about grownups? Grownups, who still have some hope of collecting Social Security and Medicare before they go broke, who have enjoyed the explosion in house prices that make the prospect of home ownership so dim for the next generation; who allowed the government to run up a gargantuan national debt, were miraculously bailed out of that, and immediately allowed it to be run up a second time; who may well have gone to college when tuition was cheap and you didn't automatically graduate burdened by student loans. We are not in much of a position to start...
This is the flip side of the gargantuan trade deficits ($765 billion last year) that the U.S. is running, the result of high oil prices, Asian manufacturing prowess and our spend-and-borrow mentality. That leaves exporters like China the task of figuring out what to do with all those dollars. It's tougher than it sounds...
...navigating the Web, information fatigue is as common as sunburns in July. There is no comprehensive "card catalogue" system to organize the gargantuan library, nor is there a guarantee that the information is accurate. Typically, search results also include sponsored links, which may not contain the most objective information. Kids (and often adults when the advertising is more subtle or indirect) can't tell the difference between regular content and content that has been paid...