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...Paris, has just returned to his baronial home from a business trip. He is satisfied with his position in society and with himself: "Friends say I have the cold stare of achievement." (Jeez, what do his enemies say?) He has been married for 10 years to a woman "well bred and intelligent." She has won the approval of his circle. "Friends said I was very much in love, and I said so myself." (He enjoys hearing other people talk about him nearly as much as he enjoys talking about himself.) But his marriage was more in the nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off With Their Hearts! | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...atmosphere that bred competition, much of it very productive...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Poet Laureate, In Vino Veritas | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...flight interview with NASA, Wilson, a Boston-bred native, said that she has harbored aeronautic ambitions since the age of 13. A high school assignment later brought her in contact with local astronomer and former Harvard lecturer Jay M. Pasachoff ’63, and her interest in space skyrocketed from there...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduate To Launch On NASA Shuttle | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

First of all, they are not fresh. They were picked ages before and transported. Second, they were bred to survive shipping rather than for taste. Third, consumers like their fruits and vegetables to look perfect, so the breeding is for appearance, not taste. Taste, alas, is perishable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding the Grocery Store | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...often arrive in June.‘A GREAT CONSUMER OF PEPTO BISMOL’Roberts arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973, and, by all accounts, he had already adopted the firm, but not staunch, conservative beliefs that have defined his legal career.Friends and roommates of Indiana-bred Roberts remember that the Straus Hall freshman aspired to be a historian. After moving to Leverett House, Roberts graduated summa cum laude in three years and chose to go on to the Law School instead of the history PhD program.Last summer, when Roberts was nominated to the Court, Robert...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Judgment of Solomon | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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