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...trying to give shape to what he stands for, Clinton still has trouble getting beyond a mere accounting of his accomplishments. Asked last week how he would define Clintonism, the President showed how far he has gone and how far he still has to go for an answer. He rambled through school uniforms, empowerment zones, Americorps and even the fact that he established a National Economic Council in the White House. Finally, coming around to his inability to win over his own party to the promise of free trade, he conceded, "I do think that...
...carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures in the profit-driven society that Hamilton helped shape. But it is Jefferson to whom the country built a monument. Clinton sat at the end of the table, silent but listening hard...
Students agree that as Harvard's only daily newspaper, The Crimson plays an important part in the network of large student organizations that shape the campus, whether they are focused on politics, public service or the arts...
...quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone is sane enough to stand trial, does that mean he's sane enough to defend himself if his best defense is that he's crazy? Just what does the U.S. Constitution...
...Granted, Glenn is in such good shape that he's not your average old guy. But shooting him back into space is more than just a medical experiment. As Kluger says, "there's the romantic, emotional, adventerous value ? everything that used to be the stock in trade of the space industry." Evidently, its glory days are here again...