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...faltering house seminar program--very few houses offer more than one seminar per year, if any--is just another indication that House are failing to live up to their expectations. The scant interaction among undergraduate House residents and senior common room members is nearly farcical; most students only glimpse hordes of grey-suited professors filing to receptions in masters' residences...
...that the season has begun, these backstairs, off-the-field maneuvers have scant fascination for the fans. What matters to them is the pressing issues...
...biggest goof of all was ousting character-conscious director Gene Saks during tryouts in favor of Michael Kidd, 73, a legend who has had scant impact on the Great White Way for a couple of decades. The politest thing one can say about Kidd's slack, scattershot staging of The Goodbye Girl is that it will do nothing to revive his bygone career...
...Nazi leaders seem to have had no idea what they should have been doing in the nuclear field and paid scant attention to what others were working on. The U.S. actually had the facts about the desultory German effort but were worried that they were a smoke screen. Heisenberg, a Nobel laureate already famous for his work in quantum mechanics, was drafted for the weapons program in September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome...
...only furniture is a single high-backed wooden chair, a place of honor for such spiritual leaders as Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. For most of its eight years, the cavernous mosque on the third floor of a white brick building along Jersey City's Kennedy Boulevard has attracted scant interest. "We are a peaceful people; we come here to pray," explains Mohammed Nagib, the spokesman for the mosque's 300 Sunni worshippers. "We do not bother anybody." But last week the mosque was the focus of international scrutiny when federal agents arrested one of its occasional congregants, Mohammed Salameh...