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...Ling Woo Liu correctly points out that most of the time, spoiled kids grow up to be dependent on their family's wealth. This is unacceptable in today's society; everyone should start working to earn their own money and thus create more "working" brains. This in turn will help the development of countries. Rami El Chamaa, Beirut
...Kennedy’s political experience or character, which are both above reproach. Frankly, if she is named to the position, New York voters and the country will be forced into yet another cycle of dynastic politics, in which celebrated surnames, rather than individual achievements, are allowed to earn positions of authority and through which the integrity of the American political system is significantly diminished. If Paterson does choose Kennedy to fill New York’s junior senate seat, what would happen in 2010, when she would presumably run for re-election? The odds are that she would...
...future of an Ignatieff-led coalition is uncertain. “The ball is in Mr. Harper’s court,” said Fairbrother. “But he needs to earn back the trust of the government and deliver a budget that responds to the concerns of the Canadian people...
...reached a point where revolutionary change is needed. The critical lack of effective and enthusiastic teachers is both a crisis and a national disgrace. Making teaching salaries commensurate with other, more lucrative fields will hopefully go a long way toward fixing this. At present, as Ivy League graduates can earn six-figure salaries out of school in offices, not even long summer vacations can make a teacher’s meager paycheck seem enticing to the best candidates...
...Salient Guy It might be tough to picture the obese, gassy Reilly playing croquet or palling around with Harvard C. Mansfield ’53, but his hilarious anti-modern screeds are stilted and acrimonious enough to fill the Salient’s pages—and maybe even earn him an op-ed column in The Crimson. Character: Roger Mexico—“Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon Caricature: Public Piss Guy Roger Mexico begins the novel romantic (“They are in love. Fuck...