Word: sectionalism
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...classmates were filing into section at Harvard Business School, but President George W. Bush sat calmly in the back of the room, spitting chewing tobacco into the bottom...
This account of Bush’s time at this bourgeois boot camp comes from the people who knew him: his section mates and teachers from the class of ’75. At the Business School, each class of roughly 800 students is divided into ten sections of approximately 80 people. The first year, the section mates takes all of their classes together—and they get to know each other very well...
Let’s be honest. Harvard will never have Midnight Madness, for the same reason Harvard will never pack the student section at The Game...
...neck-deep in nyah-nyah negative country, especially when it comes to defending the President's collapsed rationale for going to war with Iraq. It was no accident that Bush did a (pre-eruption) Mount St. Helens imitation during the foreign-policy part of the debate. The domestic-policy section was fascinating--in part, because we hadn't heard the two men debate these issues before and also because Bush had a comprehensible, if questionable, philosophy: lower taxes, smaller government. And in part because Kerry indulged in some serious baloney slicing...
...common suburban phenomenon, experts say. It makes financial sense: parents get retirement income, and kids get an appreciating asset. "With real estate prices skyrocketing in the past 10 years, people's homes increasingly make up a significant portion of their retirement portfolios," says Dennis Belcher, past chairman of the section of real property, probate and trust law of the American Bar Association (A.B.A.). For the kids, it's a way, involving minimal risk, to get into a house that they might not otherwise be able to afford...