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Townsend acknowledges the program is more "non-traditional" than what he mighthave faced at Washington University in St. Louis,but says the demands, as well as the location, arewhat make Duke attractive. Harvard, he says, gavehim a chance to try many activities while buildinga solid academic record, and the pattern of studyshould not be broken...
Officials at Adams House could not be reached for comment, but Stec said the House's summer renovations generally follow the same pattern...
That's harder than it sounds. After all, when Seinfeld went off the air, NBC couldn't run a test pattern, and by the way, now that Michael Jordan has retired, how are the Chicago Bulls doing? Summers, currently the Deputy Secretary, is following a similarly tough act. Robert Rubin, perhaps the most popular Treasury Secretary in the postwar era, redefined that Cabinet post from discreet adviser and signatory of our currency to a sort of global emissary and projection of American geopolitical clout as it is expressed now--not in warheads or throw weights but in loan guarantees...
Summer activities are currently the topic of choice for brief conversations with acquaintances I run into. And they have fallen into a familiar, and humbling, pattern...
...Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...