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...Notebook item "The Naysayers of Europe" on the French and Dutch referendums on the European Union's constitution [June 13]: I wonder how many citizens would vote in favor of the constitution of their own country if they were asked to. Is it legitimate to ask people to vote on something the consequences of which they don't understand...
...covered the game like I had every other that season. After the final out, as those kids in the red caps climbed on each other in a jubilant dog pile, all sweat and smiles, I walked down to the field, press credentials hanging from my neck, notebook clutched in both little hands...
...online resources where Harvard is dolefully under-represented and could use some love from our neck of the woods; not the least of these is www.profquotes.com, which highlights funny things that professors have said—surely they’re all scrawled in the margins of your notebook anyway, so you might as well put them (anonymously, if you like) where your peers, your professors, and the national press can read them...
Edward Kennedy, the A.P.'s chief European war correspondent, got all the details into his notebook and flew back to Paris with the other reporters. Then, 24 hours before the formal announcement, he called his agency's London bureau. "Germany has surrendered unconditionally," he said. "That's official. Make the dateline Reims, France, and get it out." (The A. P. at first boasted of Kennedy's exclusive and protested vehemently when Eisenhower temporarily gagged all A. P. correspondents, but six months later Kennedy was fired for his breach of the rules...
...fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate in the firing of the LEASAT's propulsion rocket...