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...behold avid museum-goers! Before you condemn me for my uncouth, uncultured ways, I'd like to announce that I am converted. I have discovered a museum that holds my fleeting attention span for longer than an hour (an amazing task indeed)--the Children's Museum of Boston...
...that is by no means a sure thing. Strickland is in many respects the most interesting person in the book, a spectator whose outward cynicism may mask a hunger for the truth as avid, in its own way, as Browne's. The pleasure he takes in his debunking films seems tinged with bitterness, as if his quest for good, honorable people has once again been disappointed. Strickland thinks that his stammer prompts others to show him their worst sides: "His infirmity seemed to encourage people toward boasting and indiscretion. He had noticed it even as a child. It was they...
...show was produced and hosted by Quincy House Committee member Adam D. Taxin '93, who described himself as an avid Studs...
Flomenhoft certainly knows what it takes towin. An avid student of hockey, the forwardrealizes that this team, perhaps more than in thelast two years, has vast potential. It has thechance, he believes, to restore Harvard'svictorious tradition...
...lucky to have someone like Oliver Knowlton, TIME's editorial operations director, to keep the pace. An avid runner (he logs 70 miles a week and has competed in 12 marathons; best time: 2:30:16), Oliver is the keeper of THE SCHEDULE -- a color-coded flow chart that tells our editors, writers, art directors and designers when their individual tasks should be complete each week. But the world of journalism has a funny habit of not cooperating with | anybody's flow charts. As a result, for the past 15 months -- through Desert Storm and the Soviet coup...