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...influence-peddling activities. He earns $1 million a year from a law practice that requires him to file no brief and visit no courtroom, because his billable hours tend to be logged in posh restaurants, on cellular telephones, in the tufted-leather backseats of limousines--making a deft introduction here, nudging a legislative position there, ironing out an indelicate situation before it makes the papers...
...Ikea: "OR" Want to turn forbidding places into comfortable living spaces? Watch Ikea's men in white redo an operating room. The cardiac monitor looks just fabulous in the entertainment center. And that plant on the IV-drip stand is another deft designer touch...
Continuing the pressure in the third period, Brown center John Direnzo made it a 3-2 contest after four minutes of play. A deft stickhandling move across the Harvard crease by Direnzo which led to a backhander past Prestifillipo. A roughing penalty called on Brett Chodorow 53 seconds earlier catalyzed the tally. HARVARD, 5-3 at Meehan Auditorium Harvard 0 3 2 -- 5 Brown...
Your profile of America's First Lady was very deft work, gracefully skipping on the surface of the real woman. I am amazed that this disempowered person was so easily frightened away from pursuing serious problems. While I did not like Hillary Clinton's ideas for health-care reform, she certainly had the right to articulate them. American women should be vitally interested in improving the health-care system. But public opinion has somehow achieved the wrong result; the health-care system remains poor, and the First Lady is required to be frivolous. Is that the American way? MARTA STEFAN...
Yossarian himself is rarely given the opportunity to participate in the deft comic timing that is going on all around him, which only adds more humor to his plight. As Yossarian, Leach remains stoic and earnest, but inevitably boring compared to his neurotic comrades. Watching him grow increasingly frustrated at their madness gives the audience fodder for amusement rather than a plea for sympathy. Leach portrays the perfect Yossarian--a man who has as many cyclical complexes as those around him, but whose personality grows pale in comparison to the army-green circus going on around...