Word: magnetism
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...university wants Kissinger in order that he might provide a magnet for students and money, and enhance the prestige of the institution. Noam Chomsky, an MIT professor, has suggested that appointment to a Chari of Death might be appropriate; at least the university could then be considered honest in its position. But a Chair in International Relations would only serve to condone his previous behavior and further erode the respect for human life, human rights, and human growth that is already in such short supply...
Scientists previously believed that quarks were analogous to the south and north poles of a magnet which cannot be isolated, even is the magnet is split into infinitesimal pieces, Alvaro DeRujula assistant professor of Physics said yesterday...
Charo and Kahn want to see Brew become a social center for the Quad and a magnet for potential Quad residents. Charo said the idea for the coffeehouse came from her long-standing desire to convert Hilles into a student center, and her more recent dissatisfaction with the Fox housing plan. With the help of Susan W. Lewis, assistant Dean of Freshmen, Charo and Kahn obtained funds from the Quad houses and the University, bought mugs and supplies, and opened the non-profit Brew. Give...
...class background and her memories of growing up amid the plastic totems of the '50s. Indeed, everything about the '50s seems to have a kind of magic for her, and in conversation, as well as her act, she returns to those years, as if drawn by a magnet of nostalgia. Lily's family came from the Kentucky hill country, but like many impoverished Southerners, her parents moved north to Detroit during the Depression. She was born there in 1939 and named Mary Jean. Her father Guy became a toolmaker in a brass factory, where he prided himself...
...asked to make a TV commercial for Charlemagne, a new line of men's toiletries. Hammer desperately wants the assignment; it gives him the chance to become a "superstar," instead of just another gifted black athlete. Trouble is, the script calls for him to pronounce Charlemagne as "Charlie Magnet." Hammer must act on nationwide TV as if he cannot read. Before the dilemma is resolved, Wolfe gores a number of oxen: the power of advertising, the skin-deep status of black-white understanding, the venality of big-time professional sports. Easy targets, perhaps, but no one has better...