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...rewiring] involves a considerable amount of demolition work down in the mechanical room," said Thomas M. Melvin, the project manager for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lamont Clocks Stopped | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...Melvin said fixing the clocks took a great deal of time because of the complicated system...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lamont Clocks Stopped | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

...remaining patients are happier, and so am I. To pay for their competitive marketing and bloated administrative overhead, the HMOs must raise premiums. It is time to get rid of HMOs. There are 41 million people in the U.S. without health insurance. We need a national, single-payer system. MELVIN H. KIRSCHNER, M.D. Van Nuys, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 3, 1998 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...this case, however, evidence is a little hard to come by. "Black Ops" don't leave paper trails, and that allows for official deniability. Cohen's Vietnam-era predecessor, Melvin Laird, claims the U.S. shipped a "small amount" of sarin to Saigon in 1967, but never used it. "I have no recollection of any operation like that," Laird told reporters Monday. "It doesn't seem logical to me." As for retired admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who told CNN reporter Peter Arnett that President Nixon had approved the use of sarin -- well, Moorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarin Story Hits a Nerve | 6/9/1998 | See Source »

...comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while, a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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