In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for subsistence pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments. But their economical presence, coupled with the intransigence of tenure, ensures that there will always be too many candidates for too few openings.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.xml
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The process was "a perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm," a former C.I.A. official said.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=84C5C52731077179428498C2F4A2BDEC.w5?a=357304&single=1&f=21
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the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://popurls.com/go/nytimes.com/lfb45da533d5ae7cf7cc7fb5cc3f02d0a
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There is just now a great pressure in the mercantile world, in the consequence of the breaking of so many of these scheming stock company bubbles.

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/95385/The_Panic_of_1825
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The two wings of theology, one making God immanent, something to be understood as analogous to ourselves, and one making Him transcendent, beyond spatio-temporal physical understanding, cannot be reconciled. The believer has to oscillate incoherently from one to the other.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=405647
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In the contentious debate over immigration, critics often assert that immigrants and their children aren't learning English as quickly as previous waves of newcomers did. But did European migrants of yore really assimilate quickly?

We taxpayers are being robbed for all intents and purposes in order to reduce the losses that some wealthy people bear.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,616743,00.html
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