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...must be free, not to save the world in a glorious crusade, not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain, but to practice with all the skill of our being, the art of making possible," Clinton said, quoting from a favorite poem...
Although most of the content of Harvard's laborpolicy is determined by top administrators, unionleaders say Manning's negotiating skill created apositive atmosphere which future negotiators willhave to work hard to reproduce...
...violate the state's constitutional ban on lotteries; the decision turns on the definition of a lottery, which is considered a game of chance (as players in last week's $195 million Powerball game will testify). The justices in South Carolina have to decide whether video poker involves more skill than luck...
...bright engineer foundered when confronted with practical policy decisions. Habibie boasted of being able to "leapfrog" low-skill industries, which would have given needed employment to the country's vast mass of unskilled laborers, and move straight into expensive high-tech ventures. The billions of dollars of public money he spent on his strategic companies did little to advance industrial development. His most extravagant pet project, a $2 billion attempt to build an indigenous aircraft, the propeller-driven N-250, was deprived of state funding as a condition of IMF assistance...
...arrangement seems daring even by today's forgiving standards. Perhaps more distressing is that Ross explodes Shawn's beatific public reputation, one protected by many who worked with him. "Mr. Shawn," as he was addressed at the New Yorker, was beloved by his staff. His decency, skill, editorial patience and generosity are legendary. He was shy, courtly and neurotically self-effacing. Ross, however, reveals a side of the man that resembles a Walter Mitty fantasy: a denizen of jazz joints, racetracks and classy restaurants. He was also an ardent mate. "After 40 years, our love-making had the same passion...