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...Cowan tries to use the lawsuit as the background for a discussion of censorship on television and the unique problems the medium faces. But he gets lost in a series of meetings that could give the Civil Service justifiable cause to claim the D.C. bureaucracy is "lean." The problem with See No Evil is the author's approach. Trying desperately to write what he calls a "dramatic narrative" of the events, Cowan lapses into description of events that no judge could fault for being incomplete. Awkwardly referring to his own role in the fight, Cowan's legalistic style makes...
...matchups the rest of the way all lean at least slightly the black and orange way. At two Harvard's Andy Chaikovsky squares off against Leif Shiras, a player who has beaten big guns from super tennis schools Texas. Pepperdine...
...smallest ever, averaging a not-so-petite 6-ft., 2-ins. and 185-lbs. They face a boatful of behemoths against Yale including Eric Stevens and Matt Levine, both 6-ft. 7-in. and 215 lbs. However, Harvard boasts more race experience this year and a finely-tuned, lean and strong boat. The race promises to be a classic. As Gardiner said, "There's no question it's going to be a showdown--the most incredible showdown between Harvard and Yale in a long time...
Moroz appeared "very emaciated and lean" and will undergo intensive medical testing over the next week, Sevcenko said. He added Moroz "expressed pleasure and astonishment that so many young people were interested in his scholarship...
...campus stringers for the major news media were finding lean fare in student activism, and so they started writing about how college kids those days held proms and swilled alcohol and joined fraternities and Republican clubs. And liked it. Undergraduate interest in Economics at Harvard was picking up about then, as was undergraduate interest in joining the corporate fold. There had been days of rage and even years of outrageous behavior, but kids would, after all, be kids. The watchers called it the New Mood, but it was really the old mood, which was no particular mood...