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Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts...
Although every voter and computer will place a different emphasis on strength of schedule, the combined opinions of each should, in theory, produce rankings which give the optimal weight to strength of schedule. The problem, however, is that by using strength of schedule as an additional factor in the rankings...
That's one reason Clinton won the state in 1996 and Nelson is a Senate front runner. It's true that Nelson, 57, has benefited among Jewish "condo commandos" from Gore's choice of Joseph Lieberman as a running mate and from the ticket's emphasis on providing prescription-drug...
It begins with the selection process. Medical school admissions committees look for winners: the highest GPAs, the highest scores on the Medical College Admissions Test, the most glowing reports about undergraduate achievements. They like to see stratospheric numbers and florid adjectives. In view of this emphasis, it is a wonder...
The final performer was the ever-restless Paul Simon. He was in his polyrhythmic New York street-boy mode, placing percussive emphasis and new-agey world music arrangements on hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Graceland." Two musical highlights from the evening spotlighted the night's political purpose...