Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...presidential search committee has asked for letters of student input regarding our wishes for the next president. This request pokes a small chink in the closed doors of the committee's meetings and offers students an opportunity to voice opinions over the next president. Thus, we have composed a short wish-list of objectives that we would like to see undertaken by the next president. The areas that we wish to see improved fall primarily into three categories: spending on students, changes to the faculty and communication between students and the administration...
...appeal of "West Wing" goes far beyond an exploration of the nitty-gritty details of White House life. For one thing, the dialogue--courtesy of Aaron Sorkin, who brought us A Few Good Men and the critically acclaimed but short-lived "Sports Night"--is witty, sharp and delivered at a pace so dizzyingly fast that the viewers ride the crest of an adrenaline high from the first strains of the opening music to when the credits roll. The lines are delivered by a superb ensemble cast, who interact with each other so flawlessly that one is reminded of the glory...
...paean to days gone by, when the GOP actually kept out of people's personal lives and the Democrats doled out federal funding without a second thought. St. Louis inspired Bush and Gore to abandon the middle ground altogether. Bush wants a teensy, tiny federal government, where meetings are short and there's plenty of time for jogging. Gore envisions federal tentacles creeping into every last aspect of public life, including education, health care and gun control...
...Bush was judged even more severely. His statement that we have to stand by Israel got a "Truth." But his follow-up, "We need to reach out to modern Arab nations as well" drew a big "False Statement." Either Bush was lying or the Israeli software was trying to short-circuit any pan-Arab sentiment...
Within 18 months of arriving in Oregon, Keiko gained just short of a ton, mostly in muscle weight. His skin disease cleared, he started mastering the skills of catching his own fish, and he seemed much happier. But Keiko was still not free...