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...membership, coming in just behind Penn and ahead of Cornell, Princeton and Columbia. If you want to join the thriving on-line "100 percent private" elite, don't delay--the OurSquare folks plan to "close the community" once 5 percent of their target market joins up, leaving a scant 75,000 spots available. Reserve yours before you're doomed to be an on-line commoner...
Some administrators feel that the research professor title has allowed the University to meet two goals at once--freeing up scant tenured slots while keeping more professors in the Harvard system...
...Harvard graduate who has served his hometown for over 36 years, Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 will step down from his post on January 2,2000 and retire from politics. Duehay began his career in politics a scant eight years after graduating from Harvard College...
Perhaps the most astonishing reality to confront was that the largest NATO military action in the alliance's 50-year history offered scant relief for the crude savaging of Kosovo. Officials doggedly insisted the "cumulative effect" of NATO's bombardment was starting to tell on the Serb war machine. They also said the late-week strikes against Belgrade itself were only a beginning. Even though many in NATO were nervous about bombing a European capital, the images of Belgrade buildings on fire was the first p.r. victory for the allies--and it made them hungry for more. As planners unleashed...
Finally, his tenure in the majors--a scant 13 sunlit seasons before repeated injuries rendered him unable to play as he had before. This might be the statistic that most reveals DiMaggio's greatness, for it tells us he was blessed with that rarest of athletic gifts: knowing when it was time to leave. He simply would not let the world see him play in a diminished state. Instead, he left us with the image--and the record--of someone who very nearly achieved perfection...