Word: forthings
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Wang, playing in one of her first tournaments following an injury early in the fall, put forth an impressive singles performance as well. She won three matches to advance to the semifinals of the 32-competitor field, finally falling to senior Jana Strnadova of Syracuse (6-3, 6-3), the top-seeded player in the tournament...
...Going into the third period in the little huddle by the net, I told the guys that we were going to have to put forth the biggest effort of the year in the period in order to come back, and basically, I think we did," Konik said. "I think we worked as hard as we have all year in that period... The seniors naturally feel that they need to go out and finish with a good third period...
...down at the table waiting for it to get done, you know. So this guy pulls up out front, this is a true story, and he had an old Volkswagen bus.... It was exactly the sort of bus that you'd expect to see Grateful Dead stickers and so forth on the back of. And this guy gets out and he looks like he's in his late twenties or his thirties and he's got long hair and he looks like a hippie, he looks like exactly the kind of person you'd expect to find driving...
Make no mistake about it: This was not just some isolated Cambridge moment. Increasing waves of graduates thundering forth from America's best campuses are steering clear of careers in public service. And nowhere is a change in sight...
Such is the opinion of John F. Kennedy Jr., whose new magazine George covers politics with a sense of rock-and-roll idolatry. Now, George is an extremely readable, interesting publication. The February/March 1996 issue interviews Larry King about interviewing and tackles the plagiarism put forth by The New Republic's Ruth Shalit. But the reporting, if one can call it that, has as its basis a thumbs-up/thumbs-down approach based on nothing more than style...