Word: length
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...sounds strained coming from affirmative-action foes. But Cohen points to his own lengthy progressive resume. He once headed the A.C.L.U.'s Ann Arbor chapter and was known during the Vietnam War era as "the long-hair guy" for his work lobbying public schools to let students with shoulder-length hair attend class. He has long given money to the A.C.L.U. and the N.A.A.C.P., and still does, he says. But Cohen says he parted ways with the civil rights mainstream because he wants to see diversity achieved through better outreach programs and other approaches that don't rely on different...
...been easy. For starters, Duritz was plagued again with vocal problems. Nodes on his vocal chords caused last year's show in New Haven to end early, and then resulted in the cancellation of four concerts with the Wallflowers this summer--including two nights at Great Woods. The length of the tour has also been difficult. "A year and a half is a lot of your life," says Duritz, who indicates that the band's next tour might have to be shorter. Two band members are now married and keyboardist Charlie Gillingham is soon to be the first father...
...race, 26.2 miles in length, wound through all five boroughs of drizzly New York City, following crowd-lined streets bedecked with balloons and banners...
...intensity Gehry can give to a vertical space also transfers to the horizontal ones. The biggest gallery, known as "the Boat," is 1 1/4 times the length of a football field (450 ft.), but with its curved walls and round ceiling trusses, it hasn't a foot of dull space in it. There are a few things in the design that seem arbitrary or merely rhetorical. The towering "parasol" that Gehry put over the river entrance is pointless except as a visual element--its roof is too high to give any protection from the weather. And the twin stone-veneer...
...friend William Clark and four dozen other men set off on an expedition that would take them almost 2 1/2 years to complete. Their mission was to study the unexplored lands along the Missouri River and to find a water passage to the Pacific. They traveled upstream the entire length of the Missouri, a distance of 2,700 miles. They crossed the Rockies, having expected mountains no more daunting than the Appalachians. When the screen shows peaks stretching to the horizon, you feel their shock and despair. Suddenly they knew that the Northwest Passage was a chimera and that...