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...kind of paradise and how, over a six-month period starting last fall, it was almost consumed from within. Chartered in 1864 by Abraham Lincoln, Gallaudet is host to only 2,000 students each year. But to America's estimated 2 million deaf people, the university's symbolic heft outstrips that of the U.S. Capitol, five minutes south by car. The deaf Harvard, Wharton and Brookings rolled into one, it has produced generations of leaders, activists and entrepreneurs. Whether in classrooms where teachers lecture in sign language, on playing fields where athletes key into the vibrations of huge drums rather...
...agreed that global reach was essential to provide protection against foreign-exchange swings and local labor crises. They also agreed that a company had to produce about 2 million vehicles a year to achieve necessary economies of scale. Schrempp still insists that buying Chrysler gives Daimler the mass-market heft--and the profits--necessary to keep developing the cool features that make Mercedes buyers drool...
...could tell that he appreciated the way Levin was handling it. Bush's feelings about Yale already seemed to be changing. In the general election campaign, he started mentioning Yale more frequently on the stump. Some thought he was doing it to reassure voters that he had the intellectual heft to be president. But friends said it had more to do with the fact that one of his twin daughters had been accepted by Yale and planned to attend...
...been dramatically destabilized by the arrival from some other school of a lad we shall call Benito, an exceptionally large (he'd been held back twice) and exceptionally nasty bully. Not only did Benito show no respect for the established pecking order of bullies and victims, but his heft also allowed him to impose his will on even the most violent of the pre-adolescent thugs who preceded him on the playground. Indeed, Benito showed no outward signs of human affect; if he'd been a dog he'd have been put down...
...dismiss any movie with an appearance by the heartthrob of two millennia, Johnny Depp? Still, we suspect that inclusion of the film testifies only to the Academy members' belief that each year attention must be paid to a Miramax film, of whatever quality or heft. It's like tithing...