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...fruit roll-ups and chicken-salad sandwiches past their sell-by date. The most reliable thing is courtesy Rolaids in the bathroom. Bedtime is just something you dream about until well past midnight. Air Gore was a grumpy place, and the alpha male in earth tones with his earnest town-hall meetings couldn't catch a break for much of the campaign...
Paul didn't whine from the sidelines. He helped build an opposition party in Georgia when there was none. He lacked flamboyance, but no one ever served more effectively in the Georgia senate or in the U.S. Senate. When in his wise and earnest manner he spoke, people listened. He made a lot of fast friends. He cared about people: ask those who worked under him when he was Peace Corps director. Through good times and bad, he was at my side--advising and strengthening me by his love and friendship. Paul was doing the same for our eldest...
...debate begins in earnest this week, when the FDA conducts hearings on requests by Merck & Co., maker of Mevacor, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., manufacturer of Pravachol, to sell lower-dose versions of their cholesterol-lowering products over the counter (OTC). If the FDA approves the switch, it may unleash a flood of similar requests from other drugmakers...
...audience might be troubled by the earnest stiffness of the opening scene in which Cervantes (played by Eric Fleisig-Greene '00) is thrown into a Spanish Inquisition jail. The problem of seriousness is instantaneously solved, however, the moment Kenneth P. Herrera '03 as Sancho Panza opens his mouth and lets out his gloriously funny falsetto...
Clarke, a lanky, earnest 23-year-old, became fascinated with computers after seeing the 1983 hacker-fantasy flick War-Games as a child in Navan, Ireland. A computer-science major at the University of Edinburgh, Clarke developed Freenet as a student project over the summer of 1998. His key innovation was the element of anonymity. PCs hooked up to Freenet (the software can be downloaded from freenet.sourceforge.net become "nodes," meaning they are host to data files deposited on them for varying amounts of time. There's no central server, as with Napster. And there's no need for users...