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Students eager to predict the name of the next president have been left to sift through an assortment of rumors, "long lists," "medium lists" and "short lists." Some students are betting that the new president will be from Harvard; others are betting that the new president will be an outsider...
...borrowed stuff is a flat, lifeless mess -- the road kill of passing ideas? In that case there is less risk, but surely no joy at all. (Does the plagiarist ever feel joy?) Safer to steal the duller stones. None but the dreariest specialists will remember them or sift for them in the muck...
...aspire to be the chronicle of the emerging culture," says editor in chief Eric Utne (it rhymes with chutney and means, roughly, "far out" in his ancestral Norwegian). To meet that goal, Utne and his small band of editors sift through nearly 3,000 fringe publications stuffed on shelves and in wire bins in their cozy offices in a bohemian corner of downtown Minneapolis. They peruse the conservative American Spectator and the Match!, a magazine for anarchists; Processed World, a journal for dissident office workers; and such mainstream periodicals as Esquire in an effort to splice together chronicles...
Along with a barrage of media attention, Souter faces several immediate housekeeping tasks. First is the hiring of a secretary and four legal clerks to help sift through the mounds of paperwork and petitions that are every Justice's lot. His clerks will have a say in which cases the court will hear and, along with their fellow clerks, are the only individuals who can openly argue the merits of pending cases with the Justices. Souter will probably bring at least one clerk with him from New Hampshire and will soon begin interviewing the flood of candidates clamoring...
...play to make sense of what they see and hear around them. In playing house, they copy their parents' patterns but invent a dizzying array of plots and a surprising cast of characters to embellish the scene. When children imitate what they see on TV, however, they do not sift the play through their own experience. "The boys end up imitating violence they don't even understand," says co-author Levin, an associate professor of education at Boston's Wheelock College...