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...When I get here the first thing I do is take out the trash in all the offices and classrooms, then I have to wash the floors—I dry mop it, wet mop it, and buff it at least three or four times a week. I vacuum the rugs in the hall, then I do the bathrooms,” he says...
When Summers took over the helm of the University last spring from the great humanist, Neil L. Rudenstine, he became the first economics professor to assume the presidency. Rudenstine was a French poetry buff, who kept novels piled up around his office. The science-niks with whom he surrounded himself, men like Knowles (chemistry and bio-chemistry) and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 (computer science) added a little bit of hard accounting to Rudenstine’s aura. All that money Rudenstine raised with his melifluous voice and soft brown eyes was safe, donors...
Let’s get one thing straight: I’m an Olympics buff...
...said from the start, I’m an Olympics buff. I’m an American sports fans, and I’ll be watching (a little) and rooting. Especially for Harvard’s own Olympians, like speed skater Dan Weinstein or the various members of our women’s hockey team competing for the U.S. and Canada. Things should change, however, and change soon. Everybody knows the next Summer Olympics are being held in Athens, but do you know where the next Winter Games are? Rather, do you remember where the last Winter Games were held...
...James Elliott) and Lieut. Colonel Sarah (Mac) MacKenzie (Catherine Bell), were truth seekers, devoted to honor, duty and country. They could be partners or adversaries, and maintained an unresolved sexual tension. (Their dynamic made the show a kind of X-Files for people who trust authority.) He was a buff-bodied flying ace who packed a gun, a straight-arrow defense lawyer without the moral ambiguity of his counterparts on The Practice. She was a legal babe who didn't wear micro-minis or have sex with random men in car washes a la Ally McBeal...