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...wide was the reach of The Bust, as it immediately was known, that it brought the normally fractious Harvard community into rare unity. A Soldiers' Field rally of 11,000 students and faculty produced a strike. Classes turned into floating picnics; strike T-shirts and arm bands entered the realm of high fashion; and nightly political meetings of Politburo duration became the after-dinner activity of choice. For some, there might be dancing 'til dawn, with drugs and sex in abundance. Harvard now had far more pressing things to do than police its students' bodies...
...first day Clifford slotted in a few tabloid journalists for quick "exclusives." The results were anything but objective: "His dark eyes stared into mine," wrote the Sun's Amanda Cable, "and I felt a shiver go up my spine. Suddenly he leaned forward, touched my arm and roared, 'You're trying to ask me if I've been laid since my trial!'" Not exactly. Cable had asked whether he had been "dating...
Twist any paleontologist's arm and you'll eventually elicit a fantasy about meeting long-extinct animals in the flesh. That's understandable enough, for fossil bones and teeth are frustratingly mute about so many of the things that made them the living organisms they once were. This is never more true than with the fossils of early hominids. But few paleoanthropologists have actually had the nerve to go public with their most imaginative musings, at least partly because they are so conscious of the gulf between what can and cannot reliably be said...
Senior Lecturer on Astronomy David Latham says that the Magellan telescope will be "a shot in the arm for the Astronomy Department...
...used to be that with the Wave and a few handshakes a President could be on his way after a fund raiser. Nixon launched the Big One, raising both arms above his head so far that his suit jacket came up to his ears. Reagan swept his hand through the air and stared mistily into the sunset; then he'd schmooze briefly in a structured receiving line and be in bed by 10 p.m. Barbara Bush introduced the Point-and-Wave technique, and at a large fund-raising dinner Wednesday night, the Clintons used it several times. Mrs. Clinton, arm...