Word: desk
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...your first weekend in Cambridge and your first big excuse to procrastinate. And, even if those orgo books and problem sets are still sitting on your desk untouched, it'll be easier to ignore them now then it will be in a few weeks. So, if the summer school planners' idea of fun isn't yours (getting up at 7:30 A.M. Saturday to take a bus ride to crowded, touristy Newport) here are some suggestions of places to go, and things to do. Have...
...lawyer, Thomas Puccio, arrived at his brand-new office in the Wall Street firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. He was just in time to settle a dispute between his secretary and a decorator over where to put the black leather sofa and chair in relation to his black lacquer desk and bookcase. The firm's partner of two months should be greeting many a new client from behind that desk. For in the wake of his Von Bulow victory last week, commentators across the country are suddenly ranking him among the best U.S. criminal-trial attorneys...
...that Fyodorov had promised "that he would rectify his shortcomings. But evidently he does not keep his promises." The party Central Committee, Gorbachev declared, "has given instructions that the matter should be thoroughly investigated." Few doubted that the veteran bureaucrat was being invited to consider clearing out his ministerial desk...
Walker cultivated anything but a pinko image. He placed a photo of Ronald Reagan on his desk and talked, said an associate, "like a real patriot." One day in 1979 he persuaded Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times...
...pope, director of marketing for the luxury hotel, says its proximity to Harvard Yard has helped make The Charles a popular place to stay. The hotel already has a waiting list for rooms for Commencement 1986. The front desk has received calls from parents of newly admitted member of the Class of '89 requesting reservations for graduation in four and a half years...