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...Boston where she achieved a near-perfect score on her SAT and maintained stellar grades, all the while balancing responsibilities as editor of the yearbook and captain of the ski team, leading admissions tours and running a community service organization. For Horan, success was found in a simple formula. As she explains, “I went to school. I did x, y and z. Then I repeated...
...often, or because of the blue-collar work ethic the team proudly displayed on the ice. The individual characters on the team gave this year’s Crimson a certain personality, a charm, if you will, that was built around getting along. It was the perfect formula for success. It carried Harvard to the finals. And it can be credited in large part to McAuliffe and Ruggiero...
...rest of the nation, Hong Kong people can vote for like-minded legislators in the few elections already allowed, march in the streets, even burn effigies of Chinese leaders. Under the Basic Law and the territory's own statutes?in other words, thanks to the "one country, two systems" formula?those are their rights. Until, that is, someone in Beijing decides to do some more "interpretation...
There wasn't much debate about the decision, says a Democratic Senate aide who was involved in the negotiation. "Frankly, it wasn't as high a priority as FBI wiretaps and some of the other things being debated." The formula first appeared in the Patriot Act bill on Oct. 23. One day later, it was passed by the House. "Nobody even noticed it until five months later," remembers a House aide...
...didn't risk figure into the formula written after 9/11 to bolster homeland security? In facing al-Qaeda, we knew we were dealing with an organization that sought mass casualties and headlines. In the confused days after 9/11, when Capitol Hill offices were closed after several were contaminated by letters containing anthrax, a small group of House and Senate leaders got together with Bush Administration staff members in a corner of the Capitol to write the homeland-security funding portion of the USA Patriot Act--a massive and sweeping bill that was propelled into law just six weeks after Sept...