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...electors each cast a ballot into a mahogany box with a brass latch, which is currently sitting on my desk, completely empty...
...dramas of peacetime military service in which a determined individual attains what he wants--in this case, master-chief rank and to be a master diver in the U.S. Navy--and in the process surmounts his own shortcomings and the completely predictable prejudice and near deadly hostility of the brass...
...faded glory of the Adams House Pool's marble and brass primes the stage for a play concerned with decadence and lost time. It takes place entirely in an inn for drifters. The 17 characters range from a baron (M. Daniel Hughes '01) down to a girl of the streets (Jessica B. Kirschner '01). All of them have unique difficulties so that no single one predominates. Peppel (Jared M. Greene '03), the coolly effective driving force of the play, drops out entirely after the third act. None talk about where they come from or where they are going; any attempts...
...which also narrowly went for Al Gore. And maybe Wisconsin and Washington too. And don't forget Oregon, which hasn't even reported a final tally yet. And then there's California - the state's top Republican says his state's 1 million ballots well may tip the electoral brass ring to Bush. (Gore's people confined themselves to murmuring about New Hampshire, which went narrowly for Bush...
...brass tried to keep things upbeat at last week's press conference--called to announce that one of America's oldest and most revered institutions was splitting into four companies. AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong told a roomful of reporters that his own aunt could still sleep easily putting her money in Ma Bell and living off the dividends. Lower-level Bellheads even joked about the career opportunities the split would create. "You always wanted to run your own company," one quipped to another. "Now you're going to get the chance...