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James Jamieson, 26, is a burly black who seems made of cannonballs. "I was an impatient person before I came here," he says with a grin. "Now I'm building something to last ten thousand years." Then he's off in a flurry of stone chips as he puts down his first draft, a half-inch cut, the width of the chisel, along the stone's edge. When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar. Now he can turn one out in 15 minutes. Jamieson, an ex-butcher, has completed...
...Houses and what one official called "the total Harvard experience" accessible to disabled students. Mattlin plans to continue pursuing Harvard life actively. "There's a teeling of independence here. It's easier to get around this campus than to get around New York City," Mattlin says, adding with a grin. "If I have a problem here. I can call Mr. Crooks and things will be tended to--whereas if you're in New York, you don't just call the mayor...
...final ovation for Reagan's speech rolled through the great hall, another intriguing colloquy took place above and behind the President. Bush turned to O'Neill and asked with a grin: "Wasn't that wonderful?" Growled the Speaker...
...work ethic is dead. About the only good words for it now emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then they retire to flip around iced cans of sacramental beer and debrief one another in a warm sundown glow of accomplishment. As for Reagan, in his presidential campaign he enshrined work in his rhetorical "community of values," along with family, neighborhood, peace and freedom. He won by a landslide...
...Betty Ippolito) has proved a rewarding experience. "I've enjoyed it so much--it's great to have your fellow teamates look up to you, besides it looks good on your resume--I'm so glad I paid them all to vote for me," she quips with a grin...