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...Republican rainbow...
There was never any question what kind of speech Bush was going to give at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia: the Democratic kind. He had ridden into town after a bus trip modeled on the one Clinton made in 1992. He seemed to use the "rainbow coalition" as his model for the stage show; for the first time in a decade, the G.O.P. message was tolerance. The whole thing felt like a carefully buttoned-down love...
...right. The Hubble's forte is taking brilliantly sharp pictures. But the real meat of astronomical discovery comes not so much in pretty photos of celestial objects but in the detailed analysis of their light. By smearing that light into a spectrum--the rainbow of its component colors--scientists can identify the chemical makeup of a star or galaxy, how far away it is and how fast it's rotating, among other data. If the image of a star is going to be smeared anyway, sharp pictures don't matter much, so ground-based telescopes are at no disadvantage...
...number of Harvard student groups celebrated National Coming Out Day yesterday with rainbow streamers, stickers and special events like teas and film screenings--but without the controversial posters that the event featured last year...
...they're doing, though: making obscure references the basis for their humor inoculates them against the common charge that they are just not very funny. But, they can retort, the incomprehensible article in five-point type of the last issue was simply hilarious if you've read Gravity's Rainbow. You haven't read it? Well then, it's you own fault that you don't get it. So there...