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...hoping that the relevant administrators will do everything in their power to put Harvard back on top next year. Pump those dollars out of the alumni. Hire hundreds of new faculty members to make the student-faculty ratio smaller. Put more classes into the Core to cut down on class size...
...phone, Rowlands went onto the balcony. Morris soon followed, and the rest is tabloid history. "I didn't want her to do anything out of the ordinary," says Gooding, in response to charges of entrapment. "I didn't ask her to ask him any questions, to pump him or anything. But the only way that people would believe this story was to have pictures...
...things like go for a cup of coffee on a whim. Whenever I leave the house, it's a huge operation. I have the nurses. The van has to be equipped with an oxygen tank, emergency meds and an Ambu bag, which is like a balloon used to pump air into someone manually. We had an episode when I was coming back from New York one time in the winter, and the vent failed just as we were coming up the driveway to the house. We needed the Ambu bag to ventilate me until we could...
...system will almost certainly improve. Microsoft and NBC have vowed to pump $80 million to $100 million a year into the venture, and the channel has access to all of NBC's news-gathering resources. Its chief problem is distribution. MSNBC is carried so far in 22.5 million cable homes, a record number for a start-up cable channel, but still far behind CNN's 68.5 million. (CNN is owned by Turner Broadcasting, which is in the process of merging with Time Warner, parent company of TIME.) And a new competitor from Fox, due in October, won't make life...
...here--except in the peasants' garb, nicely creased and Rinso white. One thing about these villagers: they've all seen Riverdance; Bob Avian's choreography has the heavy-footed agility of that hit Irish dance show. The choral harmonies do have a vaulting magnificence, as 30 or so voices pump out Schonberg's anthems. But director Declan Donnellan (who, for his own Cheek by Jowl troupe, staged a superb As You Like It) can't make the drama sing. Guerre is big; it should have been grand...