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Hundreds of college students will be employed by political action committees this summer. What do their job application letters say? Certainly not what the students are thinking: "Dear Sir or Madam: Next to our president, your organization is the single greatest obstruction to the effective functioning of a dignified government. I am repulsed by what you do and appalled by the suggestion that I would work...
...evidence of an ancient road to Ubar. After unearthing more information from texts at the Huntington Library, Clapp teamed up with lawyer George Hedges to raise money and organize an expedition. They later recruited two Arabia experts, archaeologist Juris Zarins of Southwest Missouri State University and British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes...
After initial skepticism, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to take SIR photos in 1984 during two passes over southern Arabia by the Challenger space shuttle. Experts found faint white lines marking hundreds of kilometers of long-abandoned caravan routes, some running underneath sand dunes that over the centuries had grown 183 m (600 ft.) high...
...also, by tennis standards, a yes-sir, no-ma'am gentleman. His youthful outbursts, occasionally obscene, usually amounted to a hard look at an unwelcome call or a pumped fist, Jimmy Connors style, when things went his way. Now, at 21, he has learned from coach Jose Higueras that champions don't waste even that much energy overreacting. When a string popped on Courier's racquet at a hideously inopportune moment in the Australian final -- on a break point against Edberg that could have settled the second set -- Courier gave a barely perceptible shrug and strolled over for a replacement...
...recording of Verdi's Otello on London Records uses this formula neatly. The music is one of the best-known operas by one of the best-known composers of opera, the names are big (Pavarotti, Kiri te Kanawa and Leo Nucci, with Sir Georg Solti at the helm), and the pretext is a double celebration: the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the 100th recording on CD of Solti with the CSO. But, unlike the "Three Tenors" concert or the Amadeus soundtrack, a new recording of Otello is the kind of project that must stand...