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Student life at Harvard can be as petrified as a Jurassic moth stuck in amber. Our campus seems to linger in the late 19th century, with preserved libraries, classrooms and syllabi. A few rare species of professor even remain from the last...
...speech didn't linger much longer than it took to give it. But its vapors still wafted through the week as the Clintons and the Gores hit the road again to sweet, screaming, Election Day-size crowds. By the day after the speech, the Senate floor might as well have been on the ocean floor. The minister delivering the invocation at the rally in Buffalo on Wednesday extolled Clinton as "the greatest President for our people of all time." Hours later in Pennsylvania, Clinton was so jazzed by the rope line that he went back to the beginning and worked...
...teams teams head to sunny skies for the break, as the men's team travels to San Francisco and the women fly south to Florida. The men's hockey team also leaves the northeast behind, as it travels to Omaha, but the No. 1 ranked women's team will linger in New England for the duration of the break...
...would need that extra person in order to stay in the game," she says, "I knew that Arkansas was an easier team [than Stanford], and it just felt so hard to let [my teammates] down in a way. But there's a place for everything, and I can't linger on that too much...
...notes that such efforts at customer service fell into disuse back in the 1980s, when commercial real estate prices soared and retailers became obsessed with packing more merchandise into stores. Smart retailers now aim to "give the customer a feeling of familiarity, keep her in the store, make her linger," says Stone. Even small amenities like a coffee bar, says Martin Pegler, a professor of merchandising at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, can make customers feel more comfortable in a store. "It's not giggles and bubblegum and balloons," says Pegler. "It's convenience. People are longing for small...