Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a two-hour election process last night, the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) chose a new executive board headed by president Jessica F. Shapiro '01 and vice-president Michael S. Roiff...
...half-hour later he'd led them back to the olive grove and the cave at Gethsemane where they'd been sleeping. Eight of them went straight in, dead beat, and stretched out on the floor near the oil press. But Jesus took Peter, James and John and pressed on a few yards into the dark grove. He asked the inner three to wait while he prayed. They were tired as the others, but they nodded that they'd wait, and he walked ahead some dozen paces to the oldest tree. It had half consumed one end of a table...
What exasperates the embargo busters most is watching foreign competitors' cutting tourism and other lucrative deals on an island of 11 million repressed consumers just half an hour's flight from Miami. Feeling that ire, the White House this year further loosened U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba, making it easier for Americans like business executives, researchers and athletes--as well as families with kin in Cuba--to board a charter flight in Miami, New York City or Los Angeles that lands in Havana. Donohue paid Castro a visit last July, the first ever by a U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief...
Kneeling before a 400-lb. concrete obelisk in the hills northwest of Los Angeles, Maureen Clemmons mutters a prayer to the ancient Egyptian god of wind. An hour passes. Then a strong gust straightens the lines that attach the obelisk to two nylon kites, shaped like the ones used in parasailing. Soon the kites flip the obelisk and drag it across a grassy field. Clemmons and her 12 assistants erupt in cheers...
...neuroticism. Although he wins more than three-fourths of the $5,000 trivia contests on the Emmy Award-winning game show, Stein is tortured by his losses. That mix of shock, disbelief and self-hatred isn't rehearsed; he says he sees a $250-an-hour psychiatrist to deal with his fear of losing. Stein's wallet is stuffed with affirming notes from the psychiatrist that say things like "This game does not measure your real intelligence, which no one would ever question" and "You are a star, and they can't take that away from...