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Gates never completed his college education. And his involvement with Harvard activities since leaving the University has been scant, according to John P. Reardon '60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...grim fate. What is wrong could not be fixed by any amount of dressing up. Anna is an earnest, intermittently moving but never quite thrilling stage equivalent to PBSs Masterpiece Theater -- lovely gowns, precise elocution and ballroom dancing, with a stately pace, wayward comic intrusions and scant urgency...
Convinced that every extra second is of value, Japan has invested mightily in these systems. Originally such devices were not tripped until the ground began to shudder -- scant notice indeed, though enough to prevent the derailment of a speeding bullet train. Such simple motion-detecting systems are now used throughout Japan and in parts of California to halt subway trains and nudge elevators to the nearest floor when ground motion exceeds a certain threshold. The Alaska pipeline is similarly equipped for instant shutdown...
...reasons she wanted me to do the scheduling is that she knows I understand that her husband needs sleep and needs time to think," says Thomases. Until recently, she was the epicenter for controversy within the campaign, which may explain why she has received scant public credit for shrewd judgments like doggedly promoting the bus-tour idea within the Clinton camp. Top strategist James Carville defends her in these terms: "The most powerful force in the universe is inertia, and Susan is the most anti-inertia person I know...
...soon as the opening ceremonies began, moreover, records began falling like tenpins: the most nations competing (172), the most athletes in attendance (almost 11,000, or five times as many as in the Winter Games), the highest number of television viewers (a projected 3.5 billion). But numbers did scant justice to emotions: to the sense of quiet pleasure as one of the first teams to enter was South Africa, here after a 32-year absence; to the shiver of unease as Iran alone paraded behind a man, not a woman, bearing its name; to the bewilderment that met the Unified...