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That community spirit is doubtless enhanced by U.S.A.'s democratic system of grading each crew in one of only three categories: Superior, Outstanding and Excellent. Nevertheless, the competition remains furious. Before breakfast and after nightfall, in spare classrooms, around parking lots, on tiny patches of grass, the squads work tirelessly on their slinking and slithering and over-the-shoulder glances. "Smile!" bark the captains, and smiles light up every single young face...
...rare attributes raise The Making of a Public Man beyond the category of benign memoir. One is Linowitz's talent for spare, telling portraits. Among them: Chester Carlson, the arthritic, scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention...
...relief problem. In the nearby towns of Mariquita and Guayabal, hospital facilities were immediately overwhelmed. At Mariquita, authorities were laying out the wounded on any available surface, from black plastic garbage bags to burlap coffee sacks. Mudslide victims were being wrapped in tablecloths, curtains, anything that local citizens could spare. Dazed survivors, still covered with mud, roamed the town's streets looking for lost loved ones...
...Bombay and had a passion for Indian equities. "Every hedge fund I interviewed with was fascinated by my Indian background," he says. Four of them offered him jobs. One, refusing to wait for him even to graduate, gave him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks in his spare time...
...students who don’t even have time to spare can attend the free concert at Cambridge Commons. The outdoor event will kick off with programs for children and will then feature seven hours of music, said Jane A. Beale, the director of community arts at the Cambridge Arts Council...