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Overall, she accounted for fourteen of Harvard's sixteen points. Still, Taylor said she was slightly displeased that she had failed to better her previous times in those two events...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Track Finishes Middle of Pack in Final Meet | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

Ford officed first across the hall from John Kennedy, already a two-year House veteran. "I could tell from the start," claims Ford, "that the House was only a way station for him." Fourteen years later, Ford would get a Sunday call from Lyndon Johnson, beating down Ford's protests and ultimately persuading him to serve on the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination. He would fly to Dallas to interview Jack Ruby, the killer of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "He was crazy" is Ford's terse summation of Ruby. Ford is the only surviving member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tribute: Gerald Ford | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Warren G. Harding often ridiculed Woodrow Wilson after his debilitating stroke. iLetis see him articulate his fourteen points without the use of the right side of his body,i quipped Warren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Presidential Folklore | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...right to be economically unproductive until the day after college graduation--amendment one to the teenage constitution--will seem incredibly quaint if not downright crazy in a few years. Fourteen-year-olds in 1950 were not expected to know how to use metal lathes even if one day they might end up working for General Motors. But nowadays 14 is rather late to get in the cyberharness for a position somewhere down the road at Oracle. This trend will only continue and even speed up as parents and children alike see the advantages in mastering change at an early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Teenagers Disappear? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Believing that he had exhausted his ideas for original material with Exotica, Egoyan decided it was time to turn to the literary world. Egoyan eventually chose Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter, a relentlessly bleak story about the aftermath of a tragedy in which fourteen children are killed in a school bus accident. The result was an infinitely subtle and heartbreaking film that found its way onto over 200 top ten lists...

Author: By William Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Independent Means | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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