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During my four Harvard years, I have kept a collection of the most breathtaking and incisive ideas I have read. Some I stored in a hidden space in my desk drawer, others I stuffed in folders and lost at the bottom of my knapsack. At the end of each year, I collect the words of wisdom jotted down on scraps of paper and in notebooks and record them onto more permanent index cards...
...poker-machine operators visited him not once but twice this year and threatened to punish his political turnabout by financing a primary opponent, Jennings didn't budge. In his re-election bid, he faces Marlboro County coroner Tim Brown, who has hired one of the state's top-drawer consultants to run ads hammering Jennings for his vote...
...sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations are well under way. Scientists and engineers have been moving in small groups from their laboratories to the desert testing site in Rajasthan. They travel by rail, switching trains in mid-journey and using false names to throw any human spies off their trails. They...
...received a report from the manager of Dining Services at Mather that there was a man in his office going through the top drawer of his desk," said Sergeant James McCarthy of HUPD. The drawer contained Harvard Dining Services money. While the manager was on the phone with HUPD, Houle threatened him with a knife, McCarthy said...
...then took evasive action. "I tried to remedy the Ridge," she claims, "but it was too deep." As Yin gives her explanation, she reaches into her desk drawer and brandishes a large pair of scissors--though not the same instrument of evil that created the Ridge. "Sarah," she says nonchalantly, "you have a weird long hair." Kennedy feels for the rogue strand, and then Yin reaches over to cut it. The cycle continues...