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Your four years of college aren't really preparation for the real world, she will attest. This is just an academic experience for the sake of an academic experience--pursuing knowledge for its own sake...
Yale Deputy Provost Charles H. Long says that such a solution is brought up "at least eight or ten times a day" at Yale, but that he does not support a plan that would sacrifice the future strength of the endowment for the sake of paying day-to-day costs...
...course, some presidential travel is necessary. Considerable good comes from personal contact between heads of state. But travel for travel's sake, the current malady, is a waste and a danger. We still wonder if Nikita Khrushchev's sizing up of John Kennedy, whose back was throbbing from an injury sustained while planting a tree in Canada, inspired the Soviet leader to send missiles to Cuba...
That might seem surprising, since Bossi's league originated as a separatist group urging the north to secede from a central government that was bleeding it for the sake of the poorer south. But voters up and down the peninsula are attracted by the league's message of opposition to corruption and confusion in high places, to government taxation and red tape, and to every social ill from joblessness and drug peddling to immigration. Bossi and some of his allies have voiced views toward dark-skinned immigrants that are as racist as any in Europe...
...course, an accumulation of sordid revelations has made J.F.K.'s Washington seem less like Arthur's Camelot than Capone's Chicago. J.F.K. himself, we know, was almost literally in bed with the Chicago Mob, sleeping with the godfather's mistress, for God's sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss...