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...Highlight the charges; never mind the corroboration. One of the book's more sensational, if most trivial, allegations is that the Reagans took puffs on a marijuana cigarette at a dinner party hosted by Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale during Reagan's tenure as California Governor. Supposedly Alfred Bloomingdale went upstairs after dessert, brought down the joint and passed it around to the guests, who included the George Burnses and the Jack Bennys. "Within five minutes they all started giggling," writes Kelley, "but claimed they didn't feel a thing and said they couldn't see what the big deal...
Those conclusions come only after probes by two different NIH committees and three separate congressional hearings over the past three years. The highlight was an icy confrontation in May 1989 between Baltimore and John Dingell, the powerful chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. At the time, the scientific community rallied behind Baltimore, one of its brightest stars, calling the hearings a "witch hunt" and Dingell a "new McCarthy." Dingell called in the Secret Service, which began going over lab notebooks with the forensic equivalent of an electron microscope...
...main passions during high school, she says, was riding horses. Another highlight was traveling to Ireland in a special program that concentrated on Irish history and literature, she says...
...this is far from the highlight of the Classics' schedule, when the team boards a bus, does not pass go and goes directly to jail--to two jails, actually, Concord and Walpole, the latter of which is a maximum security facility...
...last year, the Crimson was able to secure dramatic wins over its Ivy opponents to win a share of the Ivy League title. Cornell, Princeton, Penn and lowly Dartmouth all fell in succession. But the highlight of the Crimson's season came in New Haven, as Harvard upset the then-NCAA second seed and eventual NCAA tournament semifinalist Yale in overtime, 7-6, securing itself a spot among the nation's elite...