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...seems flagrantly immoral to make sheer entertainment out of something that is so real and so horrifying for the people involved. Yet, one wonders whether, if the coverage had been different, less entertaining, Americans would have cared at all. If turning life into a movie helps us to understand what is going on and sympathize with others in situations far from our own, perhaps this approach is the best, the most morally upstanding, course of action...
...amount of sheer talent exhibited by women in this community is astounding. I believe it is the responsibility of Harvard's administration to further examine this gaping disparity of opportunities facing female performers here at Harvard. SARA YELLEN...
Consistently placing the most swimmers in both the finals and the consolation heats, Harvard ate up points in the team score by the sheer number of quality swimmers on the team...
Gates is the Bing Crosby of American technology, borrowing a tune here and a tune there and turning them all into great boffo hits--by dint of heroic feats of repackaging and sheer Herculean blandness. Granted he is (to put it delicately) an unusually hard-driving and successful businessman, but the Bill Gates of our imagination is absurdly overblown...
...sheer reclusiveness, Hughes (Howard, not Brian G.) had a worthy rival in candymaker Forrest Mars Sr. Virtually every detail of Mars' life--including his birthday--is kept a closely guarded corporate secret within Mars Inc., a secretive company. He has reportedly given but one interview in his entire career and that to a candy-industry trade paper in 1966. Yet even Mars' and Hughes' penchant for anonymity pales before that of Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936), a munitions king aptly called the "Mystery Man of Europe." Zaharoff systematically stole or destroyed all records of his youth and early manhood, making snooping...