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Harvard's aim: to keep the man whose investments earned a 42.4 percent return last year near to Harvard's coffers...
Secondly, Opera is not free. It costs $35, and can be purchased from the company over the Web. A 30-day evaluation copy is available, however, at www.operasoftware.com. Only PC versions are currently available, although the company plans a Macintosh port in the near future...
Primary Colors' director Mike Nichols is simply wrong to say about Bill Clinton that "the very gift that makes him a great leader is the same thing that keeps him jumping on a lot of women." History shows that of all the Presidents ranked "great" or "near great" by historians, not one was compelled by his greatness to "jump on a lot of women." Some mediocre or failed Presidents--Kennedy, Johnson--did have this problem, which may be related to their failures, since regardless of the current opinion, character does count in making a man, or a President, great. MARC...
When they move up to the big cities, they make a farce of a Toronto heist and a near tragedy out of an Illinois train robbery. Linklater isn't quite skilled enough to make a virtue of these mood shifts and settles for a tone of wry, slightly distant amiability. The result is an agreeable movie, but one that is lacking the edge and intensity that films more self- consciously aware of their moral ambiguities sometimes generate...
...find the source of a Washington Post story from last year about intelligence findings on the Chinese plan to influence the 1996 elections--"have changed the whole atmosphere around here," says a senior Justice official. Clearly they have left the department's Office of Professional Responsibility with a near impossible task on its hands: everybody resents these leak investigations, and nobody wants to talk...