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Late Monday night, Shauna L. Shames '01 crept around on strangers' porches, dropping pamphlets bearing Bill Bradley's likeness on their stoops. Luke P. McLoughlin '00 stayed up all night placing Bradley campaign signs in Concord, N.H. And Thomas R. Snider, a third-year student at the Law School, got up early one morning to guard about 300 McCain for President signs. (Other campaigns like to take them down...
...leave early. There is a new "powerful man, worthy of being President," he said, referring to Putin. The speech left the eerie impression of a despondent leader who had been persuaded, gently but firmly, that it was time to go. This would explain the defeated tone that at times crept into his speech--his apology to the Russian people for the hardships they had suffered during his rule; the admission that he had been wrong in thinking Russia could be transformed in one sweep from its "gray, stagnant, totalitarian past to a bright, rich and civilized future." In fact...
...tells TIME, he is proud of the way he captured beetles, looking under rocks to find them sleeping. "Nobody else thought to do that," he says. The son of a Nissan salesman and a housewife, Tajiri was raised in a Tokyo suburb in the late '60s, before the city crept outward. "As a child, I wanted to be an entomologist. Insects fascinated me. Every new insect was a wonderful mystery. And as I searched for more, I would find more. If I put my hand in a river, I would get a crayfish. Put a stick underwater and make...
...told me he was concerned about the state of U.S.-Japanese relations. In the wake of a series of high-profile acquisitions of American properties, including Rockefeller Center, by Japanese companies, Japan bashing had become somewhat of a national sport in the U.S., and a tone of superiority had crept into many public pronouncements emanating from Tokyo. Akio proposed that the two of us attempt to counter this trend through "dialogue" that would be taped for TV and then published in Japan. His purpose was to remind his fellow citizens of their enduring political, economic and cultural links...
Indeed, the fickle wind hampered Division A's performance, and in the latter six races, MIT crept up in the standings. Its A team finished fifth in division, and its B team was third. Their combined scores were good for a second place overall finish...