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...Jordans were formerly co-operative homes for Radcliffe, but in 1985, the College began using the Jordans as overflow housing for the Quad Houses...
John McCain wouldn't give him much face time, so Wallace, in this narrative, available only as an e-book, tries to make a virtue of exile by telling the story of the Senator's failed presidential bid from the perspective of the TV crews and others on the overflow buses. But the mash note to his fellow riders turns to wholesale gush as he pants over their observations, the banal as well as the smart, reminding us that this is Wallace's first up-close look at a campaign. Worse, some details are made up, tainting the sharp insights...
...kind of guy whose luggage the airline is bound to lose. And the sort you know is going to end up on Jack's roof, chasing a cat, holding a live wire in one hand, putting out a leaf fire with one foot while trying to pretend the overflow in the septic tank down below is not his fault. De Niro is getting awfully good at comic menace (see Analyze This), and Stiller, a handsome guy who never alludes to his good looks, is a deliciously preoccupied innocent...
Franklin M. Steen, director of computer services for FAS, said the expanded bandwidth is similar to widened roads to ease traffic overflow or broader pipes to allow for faster water flow...
...early-onset Alzheimer's all lead to an overproduction of beta amyloid. But the genes involved in the bulk of cases, Selkoe strongly suspects, are more likely to do with faulty clearance mechanisms that aren't doing a good enough job flushing out the plaques. A sink can overflow, he observes, for two reasons--if the faucet is too wide and the drain too narrow...