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...breed of black Washington insiders with the connections and influence to make things happen for clients as diverse as civil rights leaders and fat-cat corporate executives. Jesse Jackson, for one, describes himself as "a tree shaker, not a jelly maker." Brown was just the reverse, a jelly maker par excellence...
System Info Atlas may be gigantic (it's a quarter of the size of Windows 95), but it has been engineered to run faster. Test drives last week were speedy but also very crash prone--par for most alpha tests. HYPEMETER Silicon Valley's "search engine" companies are about to become the latest winners in the giddy Wall Street sweepstakes known as the high-tech I.P.O. Granted, companies like Yahoo and Excite, which use typed-in key words to guide users through the Web's sprawl, perform an important editorial service. But with minuscule profits and an uncertain future, market...
...Harvard co-captain fired a 38 on both the front and back nines in a round highlighted by an eagle from 140 yards away on the par-four seventh hole. However, Radtke missed numerous birdie putts which could have offset his six bogeys...
Sanchez, who was one-under par after six holes, hit his drive out-of-bounds on the seventh hole and finished with a triple-bogey seven. Although he temporarily recovered with a birdie on eight to bring him to one-over, Sanchez lost the feel on his putter over the back nine, which was playing long, with many of the holes directly into the wind...
Nowhere in his report does Rudenstine allow that diversity might pose a problem for excellence. A reader would have to infer that possibility from Rudenstine's avoidance of it. In his thinking, the goal of diversity is on a par with excellence or above it. He says that "the need to sustain rigorous academic standards is clear." But he adds that "the more difficult and genuine challenge" is to secure diversity...