Word: reade
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...think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C- a failure.). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
...This should not be read as naval policy," Carney said. "This action should not be seen as the course of action the Navy will take in the future...
Much to the chagrin of the Likud party and Israel's representatives in Washington, the changing attitudes of American Jews are showing up in recent polling. A study of 780 American Jewish leaders released this year by the Israel-Diaspora Institute found overwhelming opposition to the most fundamental Israeli (read Likud) policies of recent years. The most surprising conclusion: 74% of the leaders approve of private discussions between Israeli officials and moderate leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...holding her own. Rather than hype fashion designers or choose new White House china (she is replacing chipped plates one at a time), Bush spends her days drawing attention to the homeless, AIDS patients, the poor, and those whose lives have been so impoverished they never learned to read. For Wellesley students, says Hewlett, Bush "has all sorts of wisdom about what half of their lives will be" -- of the victories of motherhood, small and evanescent, which occur largely behind closed doors with results apparent in the next decade, not the next deal. It is a profession in which almost...