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Then Harvard, for the only part of the game, suddenly became proficient in hitting from outside the arc. Gates, who led the team with 13 points on the night, started off the shower of threes, and junior guard Laura Barnard and Monti followed with their own to cut the deficit...
...live large in their home states but modestly in D.C. Senator John McCain stays in a thin-walled Crystal City high-rise, with jets from National Airport shrieking overhead. The senior Senator from New York, Charles Schumer, bunked for years with four guys. Others sleep in their offices and shower in the gym, as House majority leader Dick Armey used...
...have long been relied on to contribute to the Clintons' campaigns, their legal-defense funds and their library. The New York Times got wind of friends' wanting "to treat her like a bride" to help launch her First-Lady afterlife. Earlier, cooler heads had prevailed to nix an actual shower. Now, friends say, there's something of a silent shower taking place, whereby those who want to help out can learn what china (Spode) and soup ladle to buy, preferably before the Senate gift ban kicks...
...Solitude. Time passes very strangely in a large house full of windows. Thunderstorms come and go, papers are written. There are no sounds, however faint, of other people leaving for class or coming back, singing in the shower, complaining to each other, going to meals: The collective rhythm is completely absent and so, as a result, morning comes and goes in the blink of a whole novel (who knew there were so many hours before noon?) or is lost...
Some people get revelations in the shower. Others solve puzzles in their dreams. Yousuke Yamada, a lead engineer for the Japanese office-equipment and camera maker Ricoh Co. Ltd., gets his best ideas on Tokyo commuter trains. "I cannot create an idea at my desk," he says. "I like to walk around a crowded train, where nobody disturbs...