Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think I'm alone. Harvard students can be classified into distinct categories according to their instrument of choice: there are ball-point gnawers, the roller-ball elite and, somewhat rarer, the pencil people. These types are not mutually exclusive, but they certainly divide the campus into a class structure of note-taking. The felt-tip bullies, a rare exception, force their way onto a sheet with the power of fat letters. As for the multi-colored clicker pen owners, well, they are just confused pre-meds...
...they should have to pay taxes for the schools after their kids have graduated. Anger is a primal force in politics, and if you get the good folks riled over the pointy-heads in power, you can get yourself elected, even if your own head resembles a No. 2 pencil. But then you take office and are expected to legislate anger. How do you do that? This is the Republicans' dilemma: how to breathe fire and chew up the scenery, but gently, so as not to alarm the moderate voters...
...hook. ``I just came from your accounting firm,'' I say. ``I told them I had discovered an error in my calculations -- that my set-top box had a faulty chip. I supplied them with 27 new numbers, which I worked out by hand, with pencil and paper, in a conference room in their offices, far from the prying eye of the cable company. I personally sealed them in an envelope and placed them in their vault...
...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...
...still adheres to the latest version of Windows, Bob ties together all the uses most people will have for their home computer into cartoon-like images of a living room, kitchen or den. Many of the objects on the desks and shelves do things. Click on the paper and pencil, for example, to launch a word-processing program. Click on the calendar to bring up your daily appointment book. Click on a checkbook to see where your money has gone. When you get stuck, cutesy characters with attitude help you out with grunts and gestures and little bits of printed...