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While his skills helped him on New York's "very extensive circcuit" of competitions in mathematics, Elkies points out the differences between theoretical research and quick application of existing theory. "They always remind you that the ability to solve two problems in 10 minutes is not highly correlated with the ability to do good mathematics...
...specially designed by Ickes to prevent any challenges to Clinton from inside the party. And Clinton has begun quietly to hire people for his re-election campaign. The President held his first meeting on the campaign last week, and top aides are busy seeking outside advice on how to remind middle-class Americans of Clinton's accomplishments. Ickes' role in the campaign signals something else: the close involvement of the First Lady. Ickes, more than anyone else, operates as her agent...
...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There...
Doesn't exactly remind you of Lakers' glory years, does it? But that would change...
...remind the audience that the play is about the clash between the East and the West, Houston begins with a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," which cuts into "Sakura," a Japanese folk song. The stylized quality of the prelude, almost like a traditional Japanese drama, is alternately interesting and trite. Using brief statements, each of the women introduces herself to the audience. But the traits of the characters which be prelude conveys would be obvious in any case. And the inclusion of some really banal lines does not help. [Of tea] "We Japanese women drink...