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...only because he did not win admission to Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale or Stanford. Unable to accept this nearly unanimous rejection as a sign that he wasn't Ivy League material (or at least that there were other students more suited for admission than he was), Stonecypher blamed a flaw in admissions policies. After all, how could these schools reject Mark Stonecypher, salutatorian of his class at John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Alabama...
...that make this country work." As a journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing to come clean now: "I've always been more interested in interior America than in events overseas. If I were given a choice between assignments in Omaha and Paris, I'd choose Omaha." Omaha, not to mention Sidey...
...potentially important AIDS treatment announced last winter may be a dud. A "cocktail" of three drugs seemed to prevent the HIV virus from reproducing in test tubes. But both the original scientists and others have discovered a subtle flaw in the research that made the effect seem more significant than it really...
Despite this flaw, the romance was a fresh concept in that it took place between working peers. Not allowing the romance to interfere with work was a hidden undertone that presented an interesting new angle. After supplying the next "Naked Gun" movie with loads of material, the romance did add some comic relief by revealing what Secret Service agents always carry in their pockets as well as the other things that Eastwood's character "knows" about...
Wiles had unraveled the greatest unsolved mystery of mathematics. Known as Fermat's Last Theorem, it has baffled number experts for more than 350 years. A handful of solutions have appeared over the centuries -- the latest in 1988 -- and then been retracted upon discovery of a flaw. But, says University of California, Berkeley, mathematician Kenneth Ribet, "Wiles has a first-rate reputation in the subject. He is careful, and he is methodical; he does very, very good work . . . and he presented beautiful arguments." Within an hour, electronic mail hailing the achievement began streaking across the globe to universities and research...