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...Sunday night to congratulate each other and chat over refreshments, their conversation centered on broad goals for the year—many of which depended on hitting the ground running, they said.“We want to start early on Class Day speaker, one of the focal points of what we do,” said Chestnut. “One reason last year was not so successful was that they didn’t get an early enough start,” he added, referring to what Mehta called disappointment over last year’s speaker...
...individualization" of the 1968 generation. Conservative politicians have already tuned in to that social change. "The values of the 1950s are very important to us," Dieter Althaus, 47, the cdu Governor of Thuringia and a confidante of Merkel, told Time last month. "The home and the family are our focal point...
...versatile Silva—whom Murphy says “may be the best player in the Patriot League”—is the focal point of the Holy Cross offense. Remarkably, in the season opener against Sacred Heart, he alone ran for three touchdowns, then caught a touchdown pass and threw for two scores (both to quarterback John O’Neil, thanks to some creative play-calling...
...focuses on twentieth-century art, and he specializes in American and European modernism and the relationship between the historical avant-garde movements of the pre-World War II era with the neo-avant-garde movements after the war. The artistic break created by World War II has remained the focal point of Buchloh’s academic career...
...Women are very often the focal point of the tribe," notes Vincent Monico, a BIA spokesman, "because they run the family." Of the 504 American tribes, 43 are headed by women. Man-killer, whose unusual last name was inherited from an 18th century warrior ancestor, is divorced and has two daughters. She will oversee some 45,000 acres of Cherokee land and the tribe's industries, which have sales of about $12 million a year. Says she: "It's like running a tiny, tiny country." CIVIL RIGHTS Double-Barreled Discrimination...