Word: metallism
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Last year, the College began allowing student groups to poster on the brick walls of the gate, but not on the metal grating...
Most students, like Lamelle, cultivate a slavish dependence on their neatly parceled timetables-whether Vinyl metal spirals from the bargain bin at CVS or leather-bound volumes printed in acid-free ink and stored in the glass cases at Bob Slate's. Worshipped like prayer books and handled like the latest edition of Playboy to hit the men's locker room, complex planners are as common among students as red books in Mao's China...
...work for Molten Metal Technology, a Massachusetts environmental-technology company, hit the trifecta, bringing cash to the firm, funds to the Clinton-Gore campaign and special financial rewards to Knight. It was a dicey political mixture that landed him in the sights of not only the Justice Department but also Representative Tom Bliley's Commerce Committee and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee, which will take his deposition this week...
Above all she will be remembered as a phenomenon of pure stardom. Her death was a terrible metaphor for that condition. She takes her place, among the broken glass and crushed metal, in the iconography of the crash, alongside James Dean, Jayne Mansfield and Princess Grace. These other victims, however, died unpursued. They weren't fleeing the pointed end of their own celebrity: men on motorcycles with computerized cameras and satellite-linked mobile phones. The paparazzi are the high-tech dogs of fame. But it must be admitted that we sent them into that tunnel, to nourish our own mysterious...
...Justice is probing Knight's connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in contracts and breaks from the Clinton Administration ? while raising $132,000 for the President and his party. TIME?s Senior Washington Correspondent Michael Weisskopf reports Knight provided access to Gore while lobbying for Molten Metal Technology ? and took a fat commission for himself...