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...With Bush, the resemblance is so uncanny, his face does all the talking, even before he reminds you of how he got it. "When it comes to picking parents," he likes to say, "I did a fabulous job." McCain for his part presents his best-selling book as his coat of arms: Faith of My Fathers, he says, is the story of three generations of flawed men who found redemption in the service of their country. Now he is calling on voters to join him for one last mission...
...work hung in the choir stall of the All Saints Episcopal Church in West Newbury until about 20 years ago. It then found its way into a coat closet. Though church elders knew of the painting, they did not know of its value. So it collected dust...
...21st century starts, the use of weather data as a business resource has been propelled by trends in the competitive marketplace, such as just-in-time inventory and the barely-in-time demands of dual-income family shoppers who wait till the first chilly day to buy a coat. Then there are industry changes, such as the growth of a few key airline hubs and the deregulation of utilities. Together they have spurred demand for better data, faster, in more usable form...
...multiple-choice college-admissions tests as an important tool. In some ways this project has turned out to be a remarkably successful bit of social engineering. The top universities still use heredity as a factor in admissions, but on the whole they have shifted from the raccoon-coat, football-weekend paradigm of the old days, in which the premier human attribute was a hard-to-define quality called "character," to a different value system, in which being smart is first on the list of virtues and a humble background is a badge of honor...
Daniel A. Bress'01, co-producer of the Hasty Pudding's 152nd drag burlesque extravaganza, The Jewel of Denial, donned a white lab coat and stethoscope on stage to dish Crystal some "Hasty Pudding therapy...