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Discussions began in earnest in August, and bySeptember 1998, many thought a deal imminent. Butit would still be seven months before the signingin Fay House...
...largest project, by far, will be continuing progress on the $52 million renovations to Widener Library. That project, which began in earnest this spring, will involve moving the library's three-plus million volumes off their shelves in an elaborate cycle that will, it is hoped, keep much of the library and its collection accessible during the move...
...Importance of Being Earnest...
...stylist he's always seemed sort of prematurely mature, more earnest than flashy. But that gravity is also the source of his ripening strength; at a time when characterization is in short supply at the movies, Sayles keeps finding troubled, intelligent life in venues that are at once exotic and quotidian...
Daniels has always been comfortable with falsetto--the son of two South Carolina voice teachers, he warbled soprano arias as a party trick in college--but it was not until his last year at the University of Michigan that it occurred to him to start using it in earnest. After a string of bad performances in 1992 threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later...