Word: successful
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Many students and administrators credit this year's unusual success to the dynamism of a new fellowships director at the Office of Career Services (OCS). They add that better candidates may be applying to fellowship programs because the AIDS epidemic and the stock market crash have made other destinations--such as medical school and investment banking--less attractive...
...whatever the reasons behind Harvard's record success this year, fellowship winners say they are pleased to have the opportunity to study or travel abroad. Many say they look forward to the chance to experience radically different cultures from any they have known before...
Despite the obvious allure of Gorbachev's space suggestion, which will be formally presented to President Reagan this week in Moscow, U.S. experts in and out of Government are ambivalent about the feasibility of an actual joint expedition to Mars. At best, they point out, the success of any joint mission would rest on the fragile foundation of the Soviet leader's revival of detente with the West. Could good relations between the superpowers, they ask, last long enough to complete, say, a ten-year project? "There are potential benefits to us from such a mission," says U.S. Space Watcher...
This blockbuster success was not unexpected; one might say it was virtually certain. For 20 years Soviet authorities have suppressed the publication of Rybakov's broadly autobiographical novel about power and powerlessness under Stalin just before the purges of the mid-'30s. During the '60s and '70s, the public was teased by announcements that Arbat would soon appear. It never did. Then last year Druzhba Narodov, a Soviet Writers Union periodical, serialized the work in three installments, and the stage was set for the mass market...
...twelve- year- old boy wakes up one morning and finds he is the size and shape of Tom Hanks. His secret is that he remains a child inside, which enables him to score a success in the toy business, then with a fetching co- worker, who falls in love with a man who is a boy trying to act like a man. -- Eternal cutup Hanks, 31, emerges in the film as one of Hollywood' s top comic actors...