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...Civic Center was blazingly hot the night of Monday, September 13th. This could have been attributed to the scorching heat of the summer night, or to the tens of thousands of fans packed into the auditorium. More likely, however, the audience would have said that Aerosmith was the hottest element of the night...
...give away land and forfeit strategic assets in return for nothing more than a piece of paper, a sweet document that may easily be torn to shreds the following day. Some of those apprehensions can be alleviated when people on both sides realize that the present contract contains an element of time as well as one of space: the fulfillment of Palestinian national rights in the occupied territories is going to be implemented over a period of several years, delivered not mile by mile, but one attribute of sovereignty after another so that Israel will have the time to find...
This last element -- the not unreasonable requirement that at least somebody in a thriller be interesting enough to spend an evening with -- is utterly absent from another much whooped crime novel about to reach the bookstores. It doesn't matter that the story comes from Rent-a-Plot in first novelist Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. The idea has worked before and will again: a couple of ordinary guys in northern Ohio stumble over a small plane crashed in the woods. The pilot is dead. The cargo is $3.5 million in used U.S. currency. Should they...
...Hong Kong I am free as a bird. My usual style is like a painter. Every day I'm looking for a new spirit, a new element to put in the scene...
Green's part in the academic planning and capital campaign process are only one element of his administrative role. A typical interview with the provost contains questions on everything from race relations at Harvard to retirement law to the University endowment--and he manages to provide an answer to most questions...