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...That Gore invited students on the stage with him demonstrates that education is one of his priorities," said Deborah A. Gist, a student at the Kennedy School of Government who also stood on the platform...
...University of Massachusetts. He has an advantage over his younger classmates. "Graduate students often have a problem figuring out what they want to do," says Hamm. "I had never lost my interest in the maquiladora industry, and I knew from the beginning what I wanted to study." But the gist of his dissertation has surprised even Hamm. Previous research had created a literature of oppression. Hamm's interviews with factory workers in Juarez presented a different view. "Fairly consistently," says Hamm, "they portray a picture of opportunity and hope, not despair and disillusionment. I don't want to deny...
...gist of the tale is that back in 1972, when Levin started his first job at what was then Time Inc., he worked in the company's cable-television division on 23rd Street in Manhattan. At the time, in those Pleistocene cable days, some genius had the idea of building a real-time TV news service that would allow Time Inc.'s cable subscribers to have direct access to the headlines, as opposed to having to wait for Huntley and Brinkley or Walter Cronkite or even, God forbid, the morning paper. To do this, Time Inc.'s wizards came...
...spectrum. But when the Caltech astronomers got their first look at this object's spectrum, displayed in the form of an EKG-like graph on a computer screen, they were shocked. "Our mouths fell open," says Djorgovski. "I suspect that what we said was not printable. But the gist of it was, 'What the heck is this...
...buying it, any more than they had his public apologies--particularly after the delivery of the Starr report on Sept. 9. "She's never read it," says Berry, "but she certainly has the gist." Clinton himself, sources tell TIME, has complained to confidants that the independent counsel seemed to be going out of his way to hurt the First Lady and make the marriage unhealable. Why else include not only every last soul-destroying sexual detail but also Lewinsky's testimony that the President had told her that he expected to be alone after he left office and that...