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...current heat wave, the National Weather Service says there won't be much relief until late August. And from Joe Gilbo's perch high in the Capitol, the hot air may be felt for much longer than that...
...blow it up. The Senator has made his name in politics, in part, by pounding his head against the wall of campaign-finance reform. So far, his efforts have been thwarted by his Republican colleagues in Congress. But this week McCain will launch the battle from a different perch, in a campaign speech at the old town hall in Bedford, N.H., the state holding the first presidential primary...
From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty introduction that concludes, "...the cornfields are a dream of perfect order, and the town seems entirely coherent, self-contained, a place where a person might live a whole life and consider it complete, a tiny civilization all its own." Then, beguiled by a sentimental image, he adds, "The town below...
...Tufts, a sort of would-be Harvard on a hill. There was a large brass elephant in the middle of the university's Yard-ette. Traipsing down to the library, I walked out on to the roof--it was built into the side of the hill and from the perch on the park there I was able to look out over all I had left behind. A satisfying moment...
...John Harvard sits stoically while swarms of tourists attack him with flashbulbs and greasy fingers. By night, stumbling freshman stop to perch on his pedestal, temporarily transforming Harvard's "founder" into a fountain. During Harvard-Yale weekend, John rarely escapes evil Elis' spray paint. As much as students complain about the stresses of Harvard life, it's Harvard himself who goes through hell on a daily basis...