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Such an initiative could also help deflect dissatisfaction with the choice system by making all schools appealing...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge School Enrollment Declines | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

...some are still trying to deflect the "old boys' club" image, and A.D. club graduate president Patrick Grant Jr. '70 says any networking occurring at the A.D. is unintentional...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Chance for the Old Boys Network | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Burden to answer these ornate rhetorical questions. He created, in his Mystery Men stories, "a bizarre hodge-podge crew of second string, blue collar, milltown heroes." Now Burden's words are made flesh in a movie version that, for all its fights and stuff blowing up, dares to deflect action-adventure expectations to pursue off-kilter character comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hero in the Mirror | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...fighting consultants is not the story. What is is the failure of the Gore campaign to deflect attention from their own internal woes. What good are Gore's image consultants if they can't even spin internal disagreements with in their own campaigns? No wonder that Gore's issue message is being eclipsed by former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Polls in key states like New Hampshire and Michigan show a definite Bradley surge at a time when Gore is supposed to enjoy the benefits of incumbency...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: A Cancer on Politics | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...young Wakamba woman whom he seems inclined to take, in accordance with local customs, as a second wife. Mary notes, "I think it's wonderful that you have a girl that can't read nor write so you can't get letters from her." Such comments do not deflect Hemingway's attention from Debba's charms: "When we rode together in the front seat she liked to feel the embossing on the old leather holster of my pistol. It was a flowered design and very worn and old and she would trace the design very carefully with her fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where's Papa? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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