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...elected, truth be told, today is not such an exciting day for me. I will not be heading off to the polls at all. In fact, I voted over a month ago. In the comfort of my dorm room, I filled out my absentee ballot with a number two pencil, overwhelmed by the anti-climax of my first presidential vote. The local Baltimore races were equally uninspiring, since I am not quite close enough to home follow the issues well, so I made some uninformed guesses. (Then again, Cambridge is not enough of a home to me that I would...
Time Warner has also promised analysts it will save $300 million by consolidating the two companies and exploiting other "revenue opportunities." Almost all the initial pain will be suffered by Turner's gang in Atlanta, where 1,000 layoffs are expected. The company plans to apply a sharper pencil to its capital expenditures in all divisions, demanding higher returns...
...when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers dancing attention on two members of the international press corps while others poked around in a copy machine with a pencil flashlight...
...Atlantic, unanchored memories of diplomats, designers, doctors and teenagers. A postcard of the Statue of Liberty had become an interrupted souvenir, an image of the monument born in France that never made its way home. Out of a camera bag fished from the waste came a list in pencil, in what seemed to be a young girl's handwriting. Amy: light pink, size 8. Corry: dress. Steph: orange or hunter green--the plan for a spree in Paris, transformed into a haiku of loss. And somewhere lost in the waters too is an unuttered promise, a diamond ring to accompany...
...John Singer Sargent, the other main candidate. And Homer was not only big with the public; he exerted a huge influence on younger painters. Robert Henri and the other realists of the Ashcan School embraced him as a role model--the virile eye, always staring at reality over the pencil. "The big strong thing," said Henri, thinking of Homer's seascapes, "can only be the result of big strong seeing...