Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walked into Dillon Field House, told his team that "this is going to be a short meeting and a difficult one," and choked back his emotions by complaining about his "darn allergies acting...
...would the Chinese government take so provocative a course? Perhaps it sees its short-term interests as more compelling than strong relations with the U.S. This June will be the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, and the government may feel that nationalism is safer to promote than freedom. Students hurling rocks at the U.S. embassy in Beijing will not take time out to erect a statue of Liberty and shout pro-democracy slogans. Also, the government may hope to spur a guilt-ridden U.S. to grant concessions that it otherwise might not obtain; the Foreign Ministry has suggested...
...gives his life to the empty and futile myth of the western bullrider, the memory of his abandoning father inescapable. Like the bareboned land from which they grew, the Close Range stories open themselves up entirely to the reader, exposing naked nerve. In becoming one of our finest short story writers, Proulx has learned to strip away the enigma that shields personality, to expose memory and personality, somehow in her search for the authentically tragic to remain as dispassionately powerful, and as intimate, as nature...
Another possible absence from Tufts is acclaimed field athlete Dora Gyorffy. Known to competitors throughout New England as the one to beat in both the high jump and the triple jump, Gyorffy is qualified for NCAAs many times over and may not be making the short trip to Medford...
Those of you who watch 60 Minutes will have seen Lesley Stahl's interview with George Lucas as well as several short clips from the film. You will have noted, perhaps, Lucas's obsession with detail and his insistence on Getting Everything Right. Evidently he has succeeded--at least in his own eyes--since the film is now officially complete and is being shown to the press...