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...STORES Outside, windows reflect a new mood, above; inside, it's a buyer's market as some chains quietly allow haggling, stores increase sale goods 15% and one Manhattan boutique offers free massage. Even chilly Bergdorf Goodman is playing to whim--and wallet--with free drinks, TVs airing sports and its first ever Santa Claus...
...stasis of my present circumstances were driving me to retrospect in the desultory way that a person cooped up in an old house will eventually make her way to the attic and upend a few boxes.” Egan’s tone shifts, often humorously, to reflect the personality of the character on whose behalf she writes, as when Charlotte talks of New York nightclubs in which “mere unhappiness was about as welcome as an overweight cousin from New Jersey...
Resounding criticism has come from all sides for this blatant effort on the part of Blair and New Labour to pack the Chamber with their supporters. There is also a question as to how accurately the new picks will accurately reflect England’s population: when the government set to the task of naming 15 “people’s peers” they sure looked to be inclusive—selecting seven people who had already been knighted and varied corporate executives...
...Headmaster of Groton spoke, his voice quaking with emotion, calling for those who remain to remember Denny and to honor him by imitating his fine example. And, in a wonderful display of magnanimity and grace, Mr. Lewis asked Denny’s innumerable friends to reflect on our own lives the light that Denny exuded during his. It will be our honor and our privilege to attempt...
...leave Harvard without going up for tenure, Dickinson has no second thoughts about the time he did spend in Cambridge. “I came out of there a much better political scientist than when I came in.” Dickinson, comfortable enough in his choice to reflect positively on his experience, is an anecdotal anomaly. Many people who either left Harvard without pursuing tenure or who were denied tenure do not even want to discuss the issue for feaar of picking at the scabs. The tenure process may be inching toward user-friendliness, but critics remain who feel...