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However brilliant you are, the salient moment of death is unavoidable. And with death comes forgetfulness by others, even complete amnesia if you're unlucky. Hedonism is a wonderful principle, just until the time when you start taking your own adventures a little bit too seriously. These people cluster around campus, these short-sighted nothings who cannot see beyond the tail of reputation behind them and the promise of greatness before. Such souls are not to be admired, but pitied, for they fail to understand that we live and die, that we depend on others, that their achievements...
Clinton had always been favored to win the cluster of Southern and Border State primaries in early March, since that was his home region. In Florida he showed a harsh streak in his character, assailing Tsongas most unfairly -- but effectively -- for supposedly planning to cut Social Security benefits...
...Winslow group comprises a cluster of small homes situated around a child-care center, recreation area and common dining hall. Residents own their individual housing units, ranging in price from $55,700 for a studio to $160,800 for a four-bedroom duplex, each equipped with kitchen and bath. But everything else is communal. Residents try to eat dinner together in the dining hall five nights a week and brunch on Sundays. Child-care duty rotates among the residents, with several retired townspeople acting as part-time grandparents...
...seat. The secessionist groups range in size from the 50 million citizens of Ukraine to 30,000 Ainu, descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of northern Japan. They demand "exclusive possession" of two or three small islands in the southern Kuriles -- also claimed by Moscow and Tokyo -- where they can cluster and preserve their culture...
...know why. My hosts during my pre-frosh visit to MIT belonged to a fraternity that bragged about its basement computer cluster. "Four VAX stations! Yes!" People referred to academic departments by their numbers not their names. "What's your major?" Three." "Really? I'm six. and meet Fred here...