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...course, Harvard being Harvard, people don’t like to admit that they’re behind on the reading. As an eager first-year, I too proudly proclaimed that I was doing all the reading. By the end of the first semester, I wasn’t. Each semester since then, I’ve resolved to do all the reading—and failed every time...
...about his inability to create, to write. At age 79, paralyzed in his left leg by two strokes suffered after his wife's death in 1998, he finds that he cannot complete the third volume of The Last Lion, his biography of Winston Churchill, for which readers have been eager for years. "I can't put things together," says Manchester. "I can't make the connections...
Dragila and her international rivals, such as Russia's Svetlana Feofanova and Australia's Tatiana Grigorieva, have brought unprecedented attention to the competition. The pole vault combines speed, strength and the very real threat of serious injury, and fans have proved eager to see women compete. "The women's pole vault is the one event that has really captured the public's imagination," says Garry Hill, editor of Track & Field News. "It has livened up track and field...
...Maybe it's that true news - unofficial, unpredictable news - will always find a way. And maybe it's that the August shift is particularly eager for the material. Certainly those of us journalists that are working this August will have little problem with milking Gary Condit's reappearance for all it's worth...
...While the rumor mill churned along (would he stay or would he go?) media outlets had a field day with "unconfirmed reports." But for anyone eager to read the political tealeaves, there?s been no shortage of (very reliable) hints: Recent financial disclosures, for example, reveal a barren war chest - not exactly business as usual for a man who raised nearly $1 million in the comparable period before his last election, and who spent a robust $8 million on his bitterly contested 1996 campaign. Helms? wife Dorothy is on the record as "adamantly" opposing another run. He even...