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...notion of a sister city is to develop educational and cultural kinds of exchanges," he said. "But when a disaster like this happens, we've got to adopt a new mode for this type of relationship...
...Nunn, dreams unrealistically of other blacks rising to take Jackson's place. Nunn has no desire to ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor of New York champions another idea for dealing with Jackson. "We have to start treating Jesse...
...group also opposes Harvard's plans to replace the Harvard Motor Inn with a seven-story structure. The organization would like a five-story maximum on all buildings. Gifford said her group would pressure the Cambridge Planning Board, which grants special permits for buildings above 60 feet, to adopt the ceiling...
Whether English-speaking readers adopt the Khazars with equal fervor remains to be seen. The runaway success of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1983) may be a precedent, since both novels offer murders mixed with medieval arcana. But Pavic does not convey anything resembling the suspense generated by Eco's relentlessly straightforward, deductive progress toward the darkness at the heart of an obscure monastery. Instead, in the "Preliminary Notes" to this presumptive dictionary, readers are advised to proceed in any manner or order they choose: "No chronology will be observed here, nor is one necessary...
...wasn't false in any way--there was nothingabout him that was superficial. He was 100 percentTom," said Pamela C. Mansfield, a high schoolfriend. "Perhaps his illness took away all thefacades we adopt throughout life, and hiswillingness to wade through them...