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...many of us, the young people in particular, who grew up in Hong Kong under the shadow of China, 1997 has long been a line of foreclosure on Hong Kong's future. Anticipation of the historic transition from British colonial rule to Chinese socialist rule has already reached its height on the small land with a population of six million. In a sense, the changeover is like the end of millenium pushed three years forward...
Mike, who played with his two older brothers, became a basketball prodigy. As a senior at Shadow Mountain High, he averaged 34 points a game while leading the team to the state title. Genes have something to do with it--uncle Jim Bibby pitched a no-hitter in 1973--but be careful about declaring this a rout for nature over nurture. Virginia is more responsible for Mike's genius than Henry...
...still young, and already two White House-themed thrillers, Shadow Conspiracy and Absolute Power, have passed through theaters, and a third arrives next week: Murder at 1600, in which Wesley Snipes, playing a Washington detective, investigates a homicide at the well-known Pennsylvania Avenue address. These films are only the most recent manifestations of a trend that dates back to Dave, the 1993 comedy in which Kevin Kline plays a gentle presidential impostor. Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead...
...more than 40 years, Harvard students, professors, administrators and staff have been forced to look upon a sorry shadow of what could be, leaving the tower only in their imaginations--and in their line drawings of the hall with tower, as Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is apt to pencil off in a free moment...
Carl P. Sjogreen '00, who owns a computer consulting company called Shadow Software, says that some companies were originally wary about his age, but soon learned to trust his expertise...