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...Springfest is guaranteed to deliver it! This year the party starts on Friday night and rocks all the way until early Sunday morning--and it's all FREE. If you have ever been to Springfest before, you know that in recent years, it has been a modest collection of food, games, and music. But be prepared this spring for the UC to get a little crazy on Saturday afternoon, making the event bigger and better than ever before. God Street Wine? Forget it, the Violent Femmes are here. Food? More than you could imagine--fried dough, cotton candy, barbecue...
Here is how the merger should have been handled to ensure a lasting impact on students and all other visiting scholars, writers and fellows Radcliffe plans to benefit. It's modest proposal really, party inspired by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who advocated something similar in the late 1970s...
...result is that his modest, strikingly unguarded second novel, a simple story of decency and wandering, has been subjected to the kind of buildup generally reserved for the memoirs of presidential mistresses. Still living in an old house on an island in Puget Sound, Guterson says he felt no pressure from having to live up to his miraculous debut and the succeeding five years of expectations. "I'm scared enough when I sit down to write," he says disarmingly, "that there isn't a lot of extra fright that goes with having a best-selling novel behind me." Besides, East...
...modest relationship with the FBI complicates the already murky case of her husband, Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese-born computer scientist who worked on nuclear warhead design programs at Los Alamos. In 1995 U.S. intelligence officers learned that China had somehow stolen classified information about the W-88 miniaturized nuclear warhead program. The ensuing FBI investigation found Wen Ho Lee had violated a number of lab security rules, including failing to report contacts with PRC scientists -- lapses for which Department of Energy secretary Bill Richardson fired him last month. So far, the FBI has not been able to find...
...occasionally accused of having backtracked on memes, of having lost heart, pulled in my horns, had second thoughts. The truth is that my first thoughts were more modest than some memeticists might wish. For me the original mission was negative. The word was introduced at the end of a book that otherwise must have seemed entirely devoted to extolling the "selfish" gene as the be-all and end-all of evolution, the fundamental unit of selection. There was a risk that my readers would misunderstand the message as being necessarily about DNA molecules. On the contrary, DNA was incidental...