Word: coasting
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Crimson and Brown even flies students to forums, particularly from the less well-served West Coast areas...
...flurry of high-level calls from Clinton Administration officials brought Greece and Turkey back from the brink of war over a pile of rocks in the eastern Aegean Sea late Tuesday. The Turkish military was prepared to attack the disputed ten-acre island on which seven Greek coast guardsmen had raised the Greek flag. "If the United States hadn't intervened, the Turks would have seized the island," said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Bosnian peace last fall and negotiated the terms of this withdrawal in a flurry of late night phone calls. President Clinton also...
That made it the kind of week that shows off to best advantage the talents of Priscilla Painton, the Nation section's indefatigable senior editor. Her mandate stretches from coast to coast; the campaign, and for that matter politics, is only one of the many stories that fall under her watch. Juggling it all, while meeting journalism's unforgiving deadlines, calls for mental rigor and tireless curiosity--something Painton has in abundance. "She has an unerring sense about where the real story is," says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger. "She's always pushing the envelope to know more...
...here--that's enough. You want me to work too?" In fact, commuters in several cities never got there at all, stranded overnight in trains. Some of the week's cheerier air travelers ran luggage-cart races during enforced overnight stays in terminals up and down the coast. Many of the surlier ones, it seemed, were packed onto United Flight 801 from New York City to Tokyo, whose captain reportedly had to threaten arrest to maintain order when the plane was delayed 7 1/2 hours on the runway...
Residents and municipalities up and down the East Coast spent the week digging out from the Blizzard of '96, a huge and paralyzing storm system that dumped record or near record snowfalls on major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. At least 100 deaths were attributed to the weather...