Historically, one of Harvard’s preeminent acceptance criteria was ‘leadership abilities’ — and was read as “is your family powerful/rich”

Gradually, this became a problem for Harvard over this past generation, as it spent more time babysitting rich brats then educating future leaders.

Henceforth, Harvard has been modifying it’s acceptance criteria to account for (go figure) academic aptitude.

– clever move, eh?

anywho – get a kloo, fohx. Obama has written books. Hillary needed help writing books. Bush tries to have his picture taken in front of books… when convenient.

Glad to find some fellow linguofreaks.

Linguistics is my ‘thang’. I’m happy to find another with shared interest on this site. ^_^

And I admit, this is far easier said than done. I myself looked at the hoops a regular citizen must go through to get any attention on matters that are important to them.

Funny how you choose what applies and what does.

Are you even liberal? I hope not because you’re statement is EXTREMELY hypocritical of what the party represents. They should revoke your membership for ideas like this.

I also hope your less then 16 because a 16 year-old would know the difference between mocking and slander. Their is, its a down right fact, I could state 1,000 examples.

Man i’m just gonna stop here before I completely rip you a new one.

(;))

I could mention that these tests are geared towards middle-upper class whiteys, but I won’t.

(I’m a transplanted New-England white-boy from the lower class, now tenuously clinging to the middle class, just in case the sarcasm font doesn’t carry through.)

How’s the socialized police force working out for ya? The socialized fire department? Epic failure, that one, eh?

Kerry’s policies don’t particularly thrill me; I’m just reiterating the point that for all his Texan affectations, Bush is as Yankee as Kerry.

Or are you going to claim “Affirmative Action changes grades”?

You guys would enjoy the book “The Story of English”. It is the history of the language, from its Frisian, Norse, German, French, Latin, and other roots, and its dispersion into the “Englishes” of today.

It makes fascinating observations and raises interesting questions. Is Scottish a language or a dialect? It claims that American English sounds rather antiquated to British English speakers, as pronunciation and expressions have been frozen since the colonists’ emigration. “Bust” (as in “California or Bust”) comes from “burst”. “Sassy” comes from “saucy”. To be “the spittin’ image” of someone originally meant to “the spirit and image” of that person. It goes on and on. A great read.

R.

“A C in Yale but was let in because his dad . . . ” His grades, and reasons for admission, are unrelated. Please cite source on his reason for admission. Regarding grades, below is from the Boston Globe, hardly a bastion of Bush support.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/

Incremental, but better grades than Kerry.

The following link points to a seven-page article dispelling the slanders and libels that have been perpetrated by the radical left about Dubya. The first page deals with his ANG service. I am looking for a far longer piece dealing solely with his ANG service and the FACT that he requested a tour in Vietnam. (He was refused because the F-102 was being phased out of the Air Force armory.) If/when I find that article, I will post a link here.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2004_March_1/ai_113363774?tag=artBody;col1

In any case, the “AWOL” myths have been fully debunked by the Pentagon, although you should have gotten a clue when Dan Rather’s so-called journalism on this issue was proven to be a forgery.

I don’t know what Swiftboat book you are referring to. I get my information from primary and secondary sources, not rumor and innuendo passed on via the electronic teat that you radical lefties (I am NOT referring to all Democrats) think is holy writ.