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...always wondered whether she was aremarkably astute politician who recognized thatHarvard couldn't be hurried toward fullco-education--or whether she was just willing tosettle for crumbs. "Gracious living" wasRadcliffe's hallmark until sit-down dinners anddemitasse disappeared our senior year. Complainingtoo loudly about the Cliffe's second-rate housingand athletic facilities, about our exclusion fromthe Pudding, the Signet Society and (until 1966)Lamont, wouldn't have been gracious...
Constancy has not been a hallmark of Bush's political style. His position on taxes, for example, is a monument to political expediency. In 1980 he opposed Ronald Reagan's supply-side theories as "voodoo economics," then promptly jettisoned that belief in exchange for a place on the G.O.P. ticket. In 1988 he vowed to lower the deficit without raising taxes, only to reverse himself two years later when he signed the 1990 budget deal. That agreement raised all kinds of taxes -- and still failed to lower the deficit...
...corroding cell membranes and killing cells outright. Such molecular mayhem, scientists increasingly believe, plays a major role in the development of ailments like cancer, heart or lung disease and cataracts. Many researchers are convinced that the cumulative effects of free radicals also underlie the gradual deterioration that is the hallmark of aging in all individuals, healthy as well as sick. Antioxidants, studies suggest, might help stem the damage by neutralizing free radicals. In effect they perform as cellular sheriffs, collaring the radicals and hauling them away...
...A.N.C. denounced the plan as a "hallmark of racism" and a step that gives the white minority (4.5 million, vs. 28 million blacks) a veto over the future...
...implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...