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...during the NATO summit in Brussels and then at a jazz club in Prague. The Russians handed him a third opportunity. Midway through an "informal" 22-dish dinner that included moose lips ("This was not a chocolate dessert," joked an American official), Yeltsin gave the President a five-inch blue-and-white porcelain figure of Clinton, one hand waving and the other clutching a saxophone. Suddenly -- but to no one's surprise -- a real one appeared, and Clinton rose to the occasion, performing My Funny Valentine and, in spite of the season, Summertime...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points is you can hack...
...Paul A. Rosenberg, an assistant professor of neurology at the Medical School who works at Children's Hospital, unwittingly averted the detonation of two six-inch pipe bombs contained in a package sent to his home in Newton, the Boston Globe reported...
...convinced that her prayers were heard. Even years later, the memory remains as vivid as it is out of this world. One morning, three days before she was to enter the hospital for surgery, Gary answered the doorbell. Standing on the step was a large man, a good inch taller than her 6-ft. 5-in. husband. "He was the blackest black I've ever seen," Ann says, "and his eyes were a deep, deep azure blue." The stranger introduced himself simply as Thomas. And then he told her that her cancer was gone...
...must point out that the nine-inch menorah strikes me as a mere afterthought in the shadow of the towering evergreen. However, I am equally opposed to both displays, because religious symbols should not be displayed in the public sphere...