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Groton alumni at Harvard say Hawkins didnt experience anything more than run-of-the-mill prep school horsing aroundactivities he participated in actively as a student...
Students read books like the Bhagavad Gita and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty with the goal of looking at themselves and their society in new ways. The one-semester course has achieved mythic status among Jewell students. Freshmen sweat it; sophomores freak the freshmen out about it; juniors grudgingly approve of it; and seniors reflect on it as life changing...
High up on his camel, Adam Mahamoudane surveys the scene below him. The dry, sandy riverbed is a sea of color. Some 60 camels mill about, stirring up the dust and leaving apple-shaped footprints in the sand, while riders rest on their haunches in the shade of acacia trees. Most of the men - Tuareg nomads from the small oasis town of Timia in the West African nation of Niger - wear loose fitting, black trousers, with yellow or white edging around the hem. Over the trousers hangs a cotton robe held at the waist by a colorful belt. Many wear...
Most are bought by police, the military and hard-core industrial users--think factory-floor supervisors inputting data in a cloud of dust. But you don't need to be running a textile mill--or Desert Storm--for such computers to make sense. One estimate has U.S. businesses losing more than $1 billion in broken laptops this year, about 14% from sales divisions (that's a lot of laptops falling from overhead bins or rattling around rental cars...
...While the rumor mill churned along (would he stay or would he go?) media outlets had a field day with "unconfirmed reports." But for anyone eager to read the political tealeaves, there?s been no shortage of (very reliable) hints: Recent financial disclosures, for example, reveal a barren war chest - not exactly business as usual for a man who raised nearly $1 million in the comparable period before his last election, and who spent a robust $8 million on his bitterly contested 1996 campaign. Helms? wife Dorothy is on the record as "adamantly" opposing another run. He even...