Word: slates
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Judging from the flash bulbs continually snapping around the Yard, one might guess that the most distinctive features of the Harvard landscape were an infamous bronze toe and an army of friendly squirrels. Less excitable residents might point elsewhere: to venerable architecture in the form of slate-roofed, red-brick first-year houses, antique classrooms, wide stone archways, marble staircases, heavy doors, high windows and ubiquitous commemorative plaques. Others might cite the iron fence circling the Yard and its largely closed gates, inviting the rest of the world to look but not touch...
Clemente leads the team in scoring and rebounding and his clutch shooting will certainly determine the outcome of this weekend's slate of games...
...October 1999, when he said it is more important to assure that "justice shall be done" than to win cases. Within days, Ray received a call from the President's private lawyer, David Kendall, who'd spent six ugly years battling Starr. But Ray and Kendall had a clean slate. A tough prosecutor in New York City, Ray had joined Starr's team as an assistant in April 1999--months after the Clinton impeachment ended. Now he and Kendall began a series of regular talks, and Ray tried to build faith in his fairness. Over the next 11 months...
...private security guards from Israel and running a $30 billion business that brokers everything from oil and gold to sugar and grain. Switzerland refused to extradite him. But now that point is moot. Thanks to Clinton, the billionaire who could have faced years in prison suddenly has a clean slate...
...greatest potential prize is the head of Jennifer Aniston. CBS daringly slotted its hit against longtime NBC hit Friends, hoping to bolster its own schedule and cripple TV's most successful slate for its rival. "When you have a weapon like Survivor, you use it," says CBS-TV president and CEO Leslie Moonves. Analysts like Survivor's chances. Says Guy McCarter, senior vice president and director of entertainment marketing for media buyer OMD USA: "Friends will take a hit." Many viewers, he suspects, will tape it and watch S2, a blow to the sitcom's value...