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...glittering Middle American chic of the Marriott's split-level lobby. McCain spent 42 months in solitary confinement, partly because his father, Admiral John McCain, happened to be Navy Commander in Chief for the Pacific. "Until the day I went down, I lived under my father's shadow," McCain explains. "Incarceration relieved me of that burden-he couldn't affect my future there...
...paced lead. Alydar's trainer, John Veitch, had feared a repeat of Affirmed's easy gallop on the lead at the Preakness and planned to up the pace if Cauthen tried to lope off with the race once more. Said Veitch: "Alydar will be Affirmed's shadow...
Doom hangs on this grandly hewn novel like fog on the Cliffs of Moher. Colman Brady, a Tipperary bridegroom, waiting for the dawn of his wedding day. wakes his brother and sister for a nocturnal trek. Their goal is "a rock shadow over the village, at once enchanting and threatening"-one of those mysterious neolithic monuments that mark the fringes of Western Europe, ancient altars still defying the new Christian God. Chilled, the two siblings retreat. Brady greets the sun alone with exhilarated hope. It is a false dawn. A chill grips Brady's life for four decades...
Harvard personnel officers and high-level bureaucrats are constantly contending with the shadow of racial and sexual discrimination that hangs over employment practices. Stokes says that affirmative action guidelines underlie all of Harvard's hiring. Her office realizes that the burden of proof is upon the employer and consequently has made an extra effort "to both promote and protect" women and minority group applicants and employees. Arlene Regan, supervisor in the Internal Audit Department, says that people a Harvard are terribly discrimnation-conscious...
...first, though, it is hard to see anything out of the ordinary. The firehouse, tucked quietly in the shadow of Mem Hall, is a rather traditional looking building which blends right in with the surrounding brick of the Harvard campus. Three companies of the Cambridge Fire Department are headquartered in the house, an engine company, an aerial tower company and the department's special rescue company...