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Instead of focusing on the road, their eyes hone in on roadside activity...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: A Night in the Life of Harvard Police Officers | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

...series enabled each candidate to sharpen his message and hone his attacks on his opponent, leading to several well-articulated, evenly balanced exchanges...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Election '96: Kerry vs. Weld | 10/30/1996 | See Source »

...likes and dislikes, your accomplishments and your vital statistics, and maybe even photos of you and your loved ones, you also run a few risks. Since it is virtually impossible to limit access to your home page, any of the dozens of millions of Internet users world-wide can hone in on you--and can do with your information what they will...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Home Sweet Home Page | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

...failed New York gubernatorial candidate (meeting his wife, litigator Eileen McGann, during the campaign), then hung out his shingle as a free-lance issues adviser. "It didn't hurt that candidates thought I could deliver the West Side," he says. He helped a raft of local Democrats hone their positions but found that policy alone didn't fire his engines. "I wanted to find some way to connect issues with electability," he says. He teamed up with pollster Richard Dresner, who Morris says did some work for Hollywood studios, asking audiences which blurb made them want to see the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: WHO IS DICK MORRIS? | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

Blanc claims that the purpose of attending a university is "to learn to hone and defend our opinions." We were under the impression that our education was an instrument to help us change the world and change does not always come through debate. In the past, people have been murdered, maimed and forced to sacrifice for changes that others were only content to debate and write about, for instance the civil rights movement and last week's union protest of Harvard's hiring practices. Well-intentioned action is the flip side of well-intentioned thought. One without the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Well-Intentioned Thought Isn't Enough to Fight Racism | 5/15/1996 | See Source »

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