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...Maine has a terrific time romping around in the gaps between the verses, mouthing off in the somber silences between those Old Testament phrases. How does it feel to be 600 years old, as Noe (Maine uses archaic spellings for biblical names) was at the time of the flood? The Bible offhandedly mentions giants--what were those dudes like? Noe's three sons had wives, who presumably had names and personalities and feelings of their own. For Maine, the devilment is in those kinds of details...
...said the haphazard account of the presidential years was intentional: "It's much more like a diary of what it's like to be President." There are an awful lot of passages like "In mid-month, Hillary and I flew to St. Louis, where I signed the Mississippi River flood relief legislation ... Then we flew on to Denver, where we welcomed Pope John Paul II to the United States." Of course, those sorts of passages are a chronic disease in presidential memoirs...
Maass’ first book, Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation’s Rivers, was published in 1951 and criticized the Army Corps of Engineers for shortcomings in its management of water resources, flood control and navigation procedures and for its relationships with special interests...
...undergraduates will soon reap thanks to the ongoing review of the College curriculum. The curricular review’s report has recommended decreasing class sizes, recruiting more faculty and offering students more one-on-one faculty advising. The eight-House Allston plan could add nearly 1,500 undergraduates to flood already overflowing lecture halls. Adding more undergraduates may make sense decades from now with a much-expanded Faculty, but such a proposal should not find its way into any Allston plan...
...persuaded his father to decline the offer and turn the business over to him. Ernesto Sr. died in 1980. El Credito's focus on premium lines paid off in the early '90s, gaining the company notice during the cigar boom. An article in Cigar Aficionado magazine sparked a flood of orders, causing a six-month backlog. Bill Cosby, Sharon Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger became loyal clients, says Perez-Carillo...