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...supply-and-demand graphs on scraps of paper to show why he's so fond of building his business out of trash. "What is garbage?" he asks, marker in hand. "It's any commodity with a negative value, right? It's something you're willing to pay to get rid...
...words hit me. It was true: I was mad at myself for failing to pull off a clean sweep. And it was that anger that was preventing me from savoring the achievement of a lifetime: saving my own skin and that of three others. My failure to get rid of the grenade before it exploded was only the first in a long list of wrongs I would have to pardon before I could finally put the ordeal behind...
...admissions process confounds even the brightest students. The year long process of marketing oneself, claiming that each target school is the “favorite,” and then finally settling on the “right” choice can easily lead to disillusionment and frustration. Getting rid of early action will ease these daunting barriers, but the process cannot be truly meritocratic as long as preferences are given to alumni and athletes.The complex admissions process supposedly distinguishes the qualified from the unqualified, the very best from the merely very, very good. The current process, however, is hopelessly...
...years you are: Still getting rid of the hangover...
...Middle East of which President Bush spoke was the reason offered by his Administration for refusing, for weeks, to call a halt to the Israeli military actions against Hizballah in Lebanon which destroyed much of Lebanon's infrastructure. The military campaign was necessary, U.S. officials said, to help rid Lebanon of Hizballah's independent armed capability - even though the elected, moderate government of Lebanon, on which Bush heaped praise during his U.N. speech, was among those pleading with the U.S. call an immediate cease-fire...