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...Excellency is not likely to invite the band to fall by for plum brandy and cabbage rolls, and U2 is probably not at the top of the White House invitation list, either. They are dead serious about their liberal activist politics although careful not to be sanctimonious. Clayton talks worriedly about some fans turning to the band "needing to be healed," and Bono says," I would hate to think everybody was into U2 for 'deep' and 'meaningful' reasons. We're a noisy rock-'n'-roll band. If we all got onstage, and instead of going 'Yeow!' the audience all went...
...Army Air Corps weather observer in North Africa during World War II, Rehnquist sought out sunny Stanford University for his education. At Stanford Law, he finished first in a class that included Sandra Day, who would later become Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He then won a plum clerkship in the Supreme Court offices of Robert Jackson, well known at the time as the Justice who had taken leave to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials...
...turning down a job that dozens of other students would chop off an ear to secure. Under this sort of “you should realize how lucky you are” pressure, I feel compelled to call the post-college vocation search quits even knowing that my plum summer job may not be what I really want...
...moonless night, with little warning, Kennedy's 25-m wooden boat was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. PT 109 burst into flames, two men were killed, and the 11 surviving crew members had to abandon the boat. Four hours later, after swimming almost 5 km, the men reached Plum Pudding Island, since renamed Kennedy Island. Though well sheltered by trees, the atoll provided little food; a couple of days later, the ragged sailors swam another 2 km to the larger Olasana Island. Swimming out into the channel, Kennedy tried to flag down a passing PT boat. It failed...
B.Y.U.'s Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies opened quietly in 1968, operating in various rented quarters and offering semester-long courses to students from the main Utah campus. In 1980 the university was offered a long-term lease for its own campus on a plum site: a 6.6-acre plot near Hebrew University with a panoramic view of the ancient walled city. B.Y.U.'s plan, calling for a $15 million seven-story building, including a 500-seat concert hall, was approved by Israeli authorities in 1984. Now half finished, the structure is due to be completed by the spring...