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...John Cloud...
Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, with its vibrating parquet and passionate, maroon-decked faithful, is a big-gym fetishist's fantasy. So when the Harvard women's basketball team marched into Maples for its first-round NCAA Tournament game against topseeded Stanford last season, Janowski was on cloud nine even before her team waltzed out with the biggest victory in its history...
...cloud of impeachment looms over President Clinton, and we enter a special time in the Jewish and Christian calendars, it is worth examining anew the relationship of politics, religion and morality...
...movie, adapted from his own novel by Scott B. Smith and directed by Sam Raimi, whose specialty is cultish horror films, has an addled, feckless sobriety about it. These people think they're saying something serious about greed and how it can cloud people's judgment. They want you to think Fargo or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But there's neither intricacy nor surprise in the narrative, and these dopes are tedious, witless company. Mostly you find yourself thinking, "How long until dinner...
...picked up some of these nuggets from a wonderfully dated biography by Margaret Ingels (Father of Air Conditioning; 1952). The introduction to this respectful book was written by a Chicago banker, Cloud Wampler, who helped bail out Carrier's firm during the Depression and later became its CEO. Wampler wrote, "The stage was set for my unforgettable first meeting with 'The Chief.' I had already been told that Dr. Carrier was a genius and that his talents lay in the field of science and invention rather than in operation and finance. All the same I wasn't prepared for what...