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...think a comment by my Economics 10 TF exemplifies my new outlook on Harvard life. After explaining the wacky nature of the segmented Ec 10 grading curves, she said, "In the long run, this test is merely a blip on the radar of your life...
...which has not been embraced by major hardware manufacturers. The director's spokesman says he's merely waiting for millions more consumers to buy the players: "It's a question of the marketplace maturing, and Steven feels very strongly about it." One Amblin title, Twister, slipped out "under the radar" through Warner Home Video, but other films made for various studios are being held back. "Why would we want to upset Spielberg?" asks an exec from Universal, which owns rights to Jaws but won't release it for fear of alienating the man responsible for many of the studio...
DAKAR, Senegal: He didn?t apologize for slavery, but that wasn?t what Africa was looking for from President Clinton, says TIME correspondent Marguerite Michaels. ?People in Africa are looking for foreign investment, and they feel that the President?s visit has put them on the radar screen of American business,? says Michaels...
BAGHDAD: It hardly registered on the radar of the world?s media, but an historic event took place here today. For the first time since the Gulf War, U.N. weapons inspectors entered an Iraqi presidential site Thursday. The Radwaniyah Palace in Bagdad played host to 20 busloads of UNSCOM officials and their diplomatic escorts -- all primed and ready to pounce on any evidence of weapons of mass destruction, right...
...there's no cause for alarm -- at least, not until 2002, when the rock will be close enough for radar to detect its exact course. That leaves three decades for scientists to decide whether or not to nuke the thing -- and for Hollywood to produce a plethora of asteroid Armageddon flicks...