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...course, LSAT scores, like all results from standardized tests, are secret, dark wonders not meant for overt discussion. After all, phone lines might be bugged and Third World undercover agents could be listening, hoping to gain valuable information about the nation's young people by hearing their test scores...
...anomaly though, it is an anomaly that many had expected. Many physics graduate students believe the department has been waiting for years for the two to get the award. Glashow himself cagily suggest that he had more than an inkling of its imminent arrival. The first overt hint came last year during a trip he took to a conference abroad. He tells the story with delight: "I was cornered by one of those gray-haired Swedish physicists. I was armed with information about charm, all the information he could have wanted. It was my baby and I wanted to talk...
Lukash also believes Carter is bearing the emotional strains of his office well. Says he: "I've never seen him manifesting overt stress. Obviously, he gets concerned about his brother Billy or by Chip's divorce. But he's not in any way weakened under the pressure of decision making. He's philosophical about the pressures and feels he is doing the best...
...even sense in yourself that it's tenuous. You realize that while there is no overt discrimination to keep you from getting into graduate school, there's something missing that makes you uneasy," Freidan said...
...baleful influence (garlic on the windowsills, stakes through the heart, that sort of nonsense). Like those old programmers, the new Dracula is shot in the high gothic-romantic tradition, lushly scored and terribly serious about itself and its subject matter. It is also, like the old Hammers, quite overt-if a trifle too discreetly so-in making the connection between Dracula's blood lust and other, more conventional forms of eroticism. This time round there is plenty of money to do a handsome production, to hire first-class actors and use sophisticated special effects (the stuffed...