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...Undue Respect All too often, TIME chooses the U.S. President as Person of the Year [Dec. 27-Jan. 3]. Bush won re-election by a very slim margin. No great performance there. And the President is by no means a revolutionary. He is responsible for invading a country under false pretenses, clamping down on personal freedoms at home, conducting a reckless fiscal policy and letting the dollar slide. It's an insult to the word revolutionary to apply it to Bush. Frank M. Wiesebron Paris
...Loker, though, none have enjoyed any sort of real success, and most have been rather dismal failures. This past fall’s freshman “second chance dance” stands out as a particularly good example of what happens when event planning in Loker goes awry: slim crowds, an excessive amount of awkward milling and very little student enjoyment...
...Crimson held a slim advantage throughout the early portion of the first frame. After a McKiernan ace gave the Crimson a 9-5 lead, Johnson & Wales closed the gap to two and never let Harvard pull away by more than that margin over the rest of the game...
...poles of Wong's screen appeal were that she was nonchalantly sexual (in many films the slim-chested actress wears no bra, thus allowing viewers to ogle at what Sanney Leung on the invaluable Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review website refers to as "two points") and vaguely forbidding. Hollywood couldn't ignore her allure, and had taken notice of her stardom in Europe. Finally, in 1931, at 26, she got top billing in her first American talkie, director Lloyd Corrigan's Daughter of the Dragon - which, in its unabashed melodramatic excess, its rampaging ethnic stereotypes and the opportunity...
...would say the likelihood, from the evidence we have so far, that a bomb would go off in Cambridge is very, very slim. And since the story was about Boston rather than Cambridge, I would say that is an additional reason to assume it would not happen here,” he said...