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Against that surreal backdrop, the rest of Haiti seems to be holding its breath. Despite the apocalyptic fears of the BMW-and-beaujolais crowd, a vast, silent constituency eagerly awaits the political resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot speak." In villages throughout the country, prayers are offered in the churches each Sunday for the lifting of the embargo. "I would like to see the invasion," said Smith Elmont, a boatwright from the small coastal village of Luly. "We all want the Americans to come. Then there will...
What hard-pressed executive would not covet the boons conferred on the depressed and integrity-ridden Will after he's nipped on the wrist by a rough beast slouching along a Vermont roadway? All his senses are suddenly sharpened: he can smell liquor on a colleague's breath at a dozen paces, overhear plotting phone calls far down the corridor, even -- literally -- sniff out his wife's affair with his chief rival (James Spader). He becomes, you might say, an animal in bed. And he, naturally, develops a taste for the jugular in matters of business...
...knew it was coming; you dreaded it; it was sometimes painful, but not as painful as you thought; and afterwards, you felt like a million bucks, like you could walk right out into the rest of the world, blow in anybody's face and not feel insecure about bad breath...
...think the School got a little out of breath," Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser said at the time...
From trying to salvage that one second on the clock to running out all his groundouts on the baseball team, Giardi wanted it bad, as bad as a drowning man wants a breath, and that will be his legacy at Harvard...