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...excited about math and stay up allnight to do it," he says. "Math 55 forces you todo that. It's about as challenging...
Olive Holmes, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said residents hoped to preserve aspects of Harvard Square that made it unique. Harkening back to the times of allnight diners where people talked politics, Holmes said "Harvard Square used to have all sorts of creative alternatives in the '60s. Now those are being replaced by more regional stores...
...early death. But what Laurence Bergreen's solid, unassuming biography makes clear is how much Agee managed to accomplish during that ride. While he was drinking himself to the edge of alcoholism, while he was compulsively womanizing, while he was further wasting himself by lamenting this waste in allnight soliloquies, Agee was also producing...
...sort of 18-hour day, for example, in which Candidate Gary Hart made nine stops in seven cities in four states has not been uncommon. For correspondents, the problems seem to stretch unendingly: the usually mediocre, sometimes terrible food; fitful and minimal sleep; the struggle for clean clothes (allnight laundromats are indispensable); and the tedium of long waits...
...endurance and shrewd calculation flowered in 1968, when he was appointed No. 3 man at the frustrating Paris peace talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, where Harriman was chief negotiator. Cyrus Vance, Habib's immediate superior and later Secretary of State, recalls Habib's meticulous allnight preparations of U.S. positions. The observant diplomat once advised his American colleagues to look under the bargaining table while dealing with the impassive North Vietnamese, since "you can tell when they're unsure of themselves by the way they cross and uncross their feet...