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...most of my news was over thenetwork," Kim said. "A lot of people couldn'tcontact family in Northridge, so they would poste-mail saying such-and-such's phone number is thisand can you call them and see if they're allright...
Saturday evening: The vomit comes faster, freer. Among those who attempt a pilgrimage to Boston, the number of stories about such-and-such blowing chunks on the subway is mindboggling. The rowdy party-goers who stick closer to Harvard, on the other hand, have one destination: any party that will let them...
...people are going to be upset that someone didn't get in for such-and-such a reason," he says, "and they may claim quotas or that kind of thing, but it's a subjective process. You want to try to touch as many bases as possible...
Says one Harvard alumni fundraiser, "In someways the University is very circumspect aboutthat. If you were a big funder and tried to sayyou didn't like such-and-such, you'd get the coldshoulder...
...candidates, but the whole expectation of a national vision may be misplaced, as Charles Krauthammer suggested in a recent column, and it is worth considering why. Of use in certain industries is the phrase "mature product," customarily employed by a realist to deflate an optimist. The optimist will say that such-and-such commodity, although long on the market with a steady rate of buyers, still has a growth capacity in the millions. The realist will counter that the commodity is in fact a "mature product," and if it tries to overextend its natural reach, it will either flop, twist...