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...Indy 500 letters 2. Sephia maker 3. Affix one's John Hancock to 4. Zhu says protecting them with a missile shield would interfere in Chinese affairs 5. With 55-Across, co-author of a 1981 tax-cut bill 6. Rep. Hutchinson 7. Congresswoman Jennifer, named deputy permanent chairwoman for the G.O.P. convention 8. A constitutional change has cleared the way for him to seek re-election 9. Tony's son, who was arrested in London for public drunkenness 10. Thieves' hangouts 13. Empty, mathematically 15. Japanese honorific 19. Itches 20. He said Washington has too much money 21. Wife...
What draws us close are accidents--catastrophes to which we attempt to assign blame or affix explanations but which we know intuitively to be inexplicable. In the past year, a teacher and 12 schoolchildren were shot down by schoolchildren in Colorado; 12 people died building a bonfire in Texas; six fire fighters died fighting a blaze in a warehouse in Massachusetts; six Marines and a Navy man fell to their death in a helicopter exercise off the coast of San Diego. Our insistently enlightened minds leap to "solve" such things, but their effect on our spirits has more...
...Skepticism was finally assuaged after then Harvard President Nathan Pusey '?? visited Rothko. A keen-minded Yale dropout, Rothko facilely picked up on Pusey's religious interests and proceeded to affix the Passion of Jesus to the murals--the darker ochres of Panels #1-3 (the triptych) were the colors of Good Friday and the Last Supper, while the brighter magenta pink of Panel #5 was representative of the Resurrection. Pusey, thoroughly impressed by Rothko's analysis and enthusiasm, advised the Corporation to vote for the murals' installment...
Starting March 1, students, faculty and staff can register their notebook computer with HUPD, which will then affix an anti-theft plaque onto the computer's casing. The plaque will help police track stolen laptops, and also serves to lower a stolen laptop's black-market value...
...next to other candidates' posters, Levy and his staff also affix small sheets proclaiming "David Levy doesn't make unfulfillable promises...