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This weekend, College Democrats plan to go up to New Hampshire to canvas for the President's renomination. Hopefully, when they stand in the doorway of New Hampshire voters they will offer a more compelling reason to vote for Bill Clinton than the fact that he has his finger in the dike holding back the Republican flood. History has shown that elections are won by the party that shapes the intellectual debate. But Harvard Democrats have been AWOL from any real campus discussion of issues and ideas...
Westlund said that Harvard officers William Chipman and Brian Lakin were instrumental in securing the crime scene where the key finger prints were found...
...Hobart. Although he described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom and was whisked away to the hospital. A quick piece of plastic surgery later, he was fine, to the great relief of his many creditors. "I'll still be able to write checks," he joked...
...which is unanimous, is that the chips taste like chips. Not bad chips (each of us takes another) but not jim-dandy chips, either. Mouth feel, I would say, is about right. (This is no joke in the snack-food biz; successful mouth-feel technicians retire to seaside mansions.) Finger feel is pretty good too. Pick up a chip and your thumb and forefinger get greasy, just as nature intended...
...global celebrity, an icon of the information age. He wrote a best-selling book, The Road Ahead (Viking; $29.95), and hawked it on talk shows from David Frost to David Letterman. He commandeered the world press to promote the launch of Windows 95. He defied government probes of his finger-in-the-eye business practices, even as he was leveraging his control of computer software to edge his way into banking, retailing, interactive television and Hollywood. His net worth ballooned to nearly $15 billion, making him the richest self-made man on the planet...