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...narrow calculus of television ratings, the four Kennedy-Nixon debates were a glorious success. But for those who longed for something grander, for rhetoric that might rival the Lincoln-Douglas encounters of 1858, for crystal- clear arguments over relevant issues, for clues about potential for presidential leadership, those inaugural debates were a bitter disappointment. The tenor was set with the first reporter's question, a classic softball lobbed right at Senator Kennedy: "Why do you think people should vote for you rather than the Vice President...
Workers at computer stations may position their hands over the keyboard with the sensitive wrist cocked upward or downward, compressing the tendons, ligaments and nerves that run through its narrow confines. People working with typewriters are more likely to hold their hands suspended straight forward, the wrists flat. Old-style typewriter keys also generally have a certain amount of spring, while computer keys often strike against a hard, unforgiving base. "These simple things sound trivial, but they are not when you're locked into one position, working all day long," says Marvin Dainoff, director of the Center for Ergonomic Research...
...imagination in importance. Even purveyors of fiction and screenplays mold real-life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like Kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...
...imagination in importance. Even purveyors of fiction and screenplays mold real-life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...
Harvard and Yale meet again in a croquet match the day before the Harvard-Yale football game. Until then, Myer wants people to perceive croquet as "a very sophisticated, very challenging game. Large mallets, narrow wickets. It's an orderly, strategic game...