Word: blindingly
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...hope that, across the board, colleges that are strapped for cash think before reducing financial-aid programs and that schools with need-blind admissions policies remain that way. Universities lose more than just individual students when they admit wealthy applicants above equally or more qualified, but less affluent, students. Higher education should not be a business—when schools start evaluating their core priorities in this regard, their intellectual integrity suffers. There is a fine line between keeping a school alive to educate another day and doing long-term damage to its commitment to meritocracy...
...anorexia and faced head-on a tendency toward addiction, I was overly confident. I had gone to Harvard, I had solved all these really big problems. I wasn't out to solve world hunger, but I thought I could take on the problems in my own universe. I was blind to my own vulnerabilities - blind to the fact that I was human...
Peter: Um, I’m color blind? Oh, I snore...
...opportunities for French companies. French commentators have noted how such business-as-usual tightness with African cronies, whose track record on democracy and human rights often leaves much to be desired, contrasts with Sarkozy's earlier pledges to break with Paris' traditional Françafrique policy of turning a blind eye to authoritarianism and corruption to maintain healthy relations with stable African allies. (See pictures of the Pope's recent visit to Africa...
...that's prompted a backlash from opponents who believe the goal should be getting France to practice the color-blind promise of the Republic - not swapping it for U.S.-style multiculturalism and affirmative action. "Even if it's out to do the right thing, positive discrimination remains discrimination, and classifying people by race and ethnicity is in a manner itself racism," argues Malek Boutih, former head of France's seminal civil rights group S.O.S. Racism, and now a member of the Socialist Party's national bureau. "You don't surrender your principles because they are being abused in practice...