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...with a sense of genuine relief when PCF-44?s Jim Wasser telephoned me last week with the news that Gardner had ?rung him up out-of-the-blue? to discuss their shared days together in Vietnam. ?It was great? Wasser told me. ?You know he fought bravely in Vietnam. He is still a brother. I miss him. I would like to see him.? He then hesitated and went on. ?But he has developed a strange, negative assessment of Lieutenant Kerry. It shocked me. His memory is dead wrong. He remembers things so differently.? He has some kind of weird...
Amanda Lydon ’94 was only too aware of the contrast between her situation and that of her friends. When she was “on the very bottom rung, doing hard physical work with new immigrants,” she says, her friends were cramming for their bar exams...
...over-hyping bands in a constant search for the next big thing, caught on to the Von Bondies after the White Stripes’ popularity soared. Marcie Bolen was even featured at number seven in NME’s 2002 Cool List. Meg White and Jack White, incidentally, rung in at numbers six and one, respectively...
...Having rung the Mars bell, however, the current Bush Administration may find it's not possible to unring it. Even if it's true that the President's announcement was nothing more than a bit of election-year candy, it's getting some very serious attention from some very smart people. Mars, they're concluding, is not out of reach for human beings--and it need not take decades to get there. Indeed, there may be any number of possible routes to the Red Planet that could, some say, have boots on the soil in as few as 10 years...
...year has been rung in, and the old year is gone, but one memento of the past 12 months remains: your 2003 tax bill. Statements from your employer and financial institutions (W2s, 1099s) will start landing in your mailbox this month to help you report last year's income to Uncle Sam. It's too late to reduce your tax burden if you owe money for the year that's past, but now is the perfect time to start thinking about ways to reduce taxes for the year that has just begun. Looking ahead, we can see that...