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...suggestion that I might put a little extra time into, say, parallel parking. Three point turns, maybe? Hell, even “coming to a slow stop” would have been less shameful than what the instructor actually had to say: “I think Katie might benefit from more practice on her right hand turns...
...opposite party of the incumbent, Kryzan - like Barack Obama - seems poised to benefit politically from the current turmoil on Wall Street. With the help of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, she has been blasting Lee for refusing to state whether he would have voted for Congress' $700 billion bailout bill. (Kryzan says she would have voted yes; Lee says the bill was "necessary," but an "embarrassment" because it was loaded with so many pork barrel projects.) Upstate New York and the rest of the Rust Belt has been hit particularly hard by the economic downturn, with the region still reeling...
...able to weather such a change in policy, the inevitable disappearance of smaller schools would result in more limited access to higher education in the United States. The harm that would be caused by the removal of the tax-exemption status of American universities is much greater than the benefit would be. That said, American universities need to do the good work that justifies their exemption from taxation. All schools should be required by the U.S. government to spend at least five percent of their endowment every year. The complaint from schools in recent years that they don?...
...fiction. Harvard students should think about sex: In light of Trojan’s recent Sexual Health Report Card, the need for educational outreach seems especially important. The college would do well to recognize that positive, peer-to-peer education about mental health and eating concerns would also greatly benefit freshmen. Harvard is a place where many students are afraid to express what they perceive to be weaknesses; more peer-to-peer education could do a great deal to reduce this fear. Freshmen study breaks provide the perfect opportunity for members of groups like Room 13, Eating Concerns Hotline...
...overall. The men’s basketball games at the Beijing Olympics were some of the most competitive games to date; the gold medal game, for example, was not a rout by the United States but a fairly close 118-107 American win. But this is only a small benefit of the overall destructive process; the deportation of our finest hoops talent will not be benefit the NBA or its fans. As a collective, American basketball fans care little about the international sport, notwithstanding the summer Olympics every four years...