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Today, it might be remembered that Kennedy gave America the promise, the hint of a different type of leadership. There was a hint that he could take the self-satisfied society out of itself, that he could strive for excellence. As Governor Michael S. Dukakis said at last month's dedication of the Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy was not an inspiration, "he was the inspiration" for his contemporaries. There was the promise that he could recognize his mistakes and, more, that he could learn from them...
...fantastic and powerful tool," Doty says. This method of including E. coli to clone many copies of the DNA template is cheap, efficient, and, above all, it produces pure mixtures of the DNA. Despite gene splicing abilities, which may speed up the work by years, Doty says without any hint of discouragement, "disecting out what any of this means is going to take a tremendous amount of time...
...week's drama began at 8 a.m. last Wednesday, when phones began ringing in the homes of startled reporters all over Washington. Administration officials told the newsmen that they had better get to the White House for an important announcement at 9. The callers gave no hint of what it would be about. Promptly on the hour, a grim-faced Jimmy Carter strode into a briefing room, climbed onto the podium and read a terse statement: "The continuing decline in the exchange value of the dollar threatens economic progress at home and abroad, and the success of our anti-inflation...
...Prince of Wales. Naturally, she must marry someone else immediately. "The prince would never seek to compromise a single lady," explains the royal equerry. Louisa rails at this "conspeyeracy" but bows to sovereign fate and marries Mr. Trotter, the butler (played by Donald Burton with just the right hint of smarminess). The prince sets them up in a London house designed for discreet visits. In quick succession, Victoria dies, the new King finds that he must bow to propriety and stop going out nights, Trotter turns to drink. Louisa buys the Bentinck, a hotel going out at the seams...
Novelist E.M. Forster's beginnings did not promise a happy ending. There was, first of all, a hint of early mortality. His father, a feckless architect, died of tuberculosis in 1880, less than two years after Edward Morgan was born. That left his care entirely to Lily, his formidable mother, and to a zealous battalion of female relatives and friends. They coddled him mercilessly, dressed him like a fop and spoke of him in his presence as "the Important One." Naturally, the boy grew into a man thoroughly confused about his sex and spectacularly bumbling at practical affairs...