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...Dartboard is an optimist at heart, and when life throws Dartboard lemons—or a hellish exile in the depths of residential Cambridge—Dartboard makes lemonade. Suddenly, packed in with the human freight of the Shuttle, Dartboard was struck by inspiration: If the top floors of Hilles can be converted from study to College-sanctioned tomfoolery, why not some portion of the shabby Shuttle...
Assumption two: War will not achieve democratic reform in Iraq. On this point, Bush himself is an optimist, affirming that Iraqis are “skilled and educated people” who, in the absence of tyrants like Saddam, will work to sustain the most enlightened form of government possible (representative democracy...
...sacrifices, financial and personal, of having left home and lived thousands of miles away,” says Rayd Abu-Ayyash ’01, who claims both Germany and Jordan as his home countries, “it requires an idealist, economically secure, well-connected, or a courageous optimist to return home straight after university...
...rapidly establishing herself as? one of the leaders of a new,? increasingly vocal? neoconservative brand of black political analysis that? rejects affirmative action and reparations for slavery and holds blacks responsible for their own uplift. Until recently, most left-leaning black theorists derided her as a hopeless optimist. Her previous book, "Black Faces, Black Interests," ruffled many black politicians by dismissing their fear that a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of race in the creation of majority black congressional districts would be a disaster. ?Instead, Swain predicted, the ruling actually would be good for? African Americans...
...Living through what I’ve lived through, one has to be an optimist,” Nyarota says. “It is my philosophy that what is happening in Zimbabwe today cannot be the destiny of my people. Change must come...