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...string of multiple winners to continue forever. Advances in science at other schools will likely spread the future Nobel wealth; also, they said, Harvard's recent gains largely stem from an unusually large--and talented--group of professors hired in the mid-1950s whose work has recently reached fruition...
...everyone else." Nothing that Harvard currently leads the league in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage, Snyder said the team's performance is "certainly impressive, but not what I would call an astounding beginning. It's just that McLaughlin's coaching and all their hard work has come to fruition." Princeton SID Steve Raczynski, on the other hand, called Harvard's play "very astounding," adding, "As I'm sure most people are around the league, I'm somewhat surprised." He continued, "Maybe in a sense they still have to be tested, and if anyone will test them...
...sensibility, the film makers have avoided anything that might be melodramatic or even openly emotional. All the suffering in Tell Me a Riddle is thus stoic, all triumphs without joy. Movement is glacial, dialogue wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry, by three young woman producers who love the Olsen work-is faithful to the letter of the book, but heedless of the need to give the story a freer, less cautious life in a new medium. What sympathy one feels for the attempt to solve...
...retain less heat--may cause a stir. One suggestion calls for covering the glass surfaces with plywood and painting them black, a process that would cost almost as much as insulating the windows with a second layer of glass. Abernathy doubts that idea will ever come to fruition. "You could blow the building up too, and that would remedy it," he says...
...variously hailed as "the birth of Islamic justice" and the "fruition of the blood of the revolution's martyrs." At the bidding of the Muslim clergy, tens of thousands of Iranians last week took to their rooftops to herald its coming. Next morning, 17 months after the revolution that drove the toppled Shah into exile, the first session of the new Iranian parliament, the Majlis, convened in the capital of Tehran. It was symptomatic of the country's volatile political climate that most of the 213 newly elected representatives arrived with personal bodyguards. Some even carried their...