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...great roles were bit players shoved center stage, who without power or grace had to make do with the peculiar strengths of the insignificant. The confused inventor in The Man in the White Suit, the "fubsy" robber in The Lavender Hill Mob, and most especially Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, are all men who have greatness thrust upon them. Olivier would have made Col. Nicholson a hero; Guinness kept him a man. It is fitting, somehow, that after a great and varied career--one which won him an Oscar and knighthood--most movie-goers remember...
Egan also emphasized the change in the way other schools perceived the Crimson: "Whereas before, a Harvard swimmer in the final heat would be considered just a peculiar, unusual case, that view has now been eliminated. Now that we are placing more and more people in different events, it has made us worthy of national attention...
...AIDS strain. As in Essex's study, the new virus was found in the blood of West Africans -- in this case, two men from Guinea-Bissau, which borders Senegal. Both men, however, were suffering from the symptoms of AIDS. "It seems to be the same disease; there was nothing peculiar about their illness," says Dr. Francois Clavel of the Pasteur team. The new virus, however, is sufficiently different from the AIDS virus that it is not always detected by current blood-screening tests for AIDS, says Clavel. But he believes that the risk of contaminating banked blood is small, since...
...University Health Services (UHS) is in a peculiar situation...
...believe that the example of the "Superfund" law can help us solve the problems created by our own peculiar producers of hazardous waste. (If you don't believe the situation is hazardous, try playing frisbee by Widener in white sneakers...