Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor Thompson pointed out that "he did not appear before the ad hoc committee, as he was out of town on the day it met." But this hardly settles the question of whether he participated in the tenure review after departmental deliberations...
...were a small town, and a big basketball town, so when we won we became a big attraction," Monti said...
...England, where a genetic database has operated since 1995, suspects are routinely screened this way--more than 360,000 gene prints are online--though police do promise that such profiles will be scrubbed from the record if the person is cleared. English officials investigating a crime in a small town sometimes perform mass screenings in which thousands of people are asked to surrender a mouth swab full of DNA. The law gives anyone the right to decline, but as residents of Lawrence, Mass., are learning, no law can prevent the slit-eyed look police give a person who actually chooses...
...Washington the talk of the town this week will probably be VANITY FAIR's look inside the tormented saga of BILL and HILLARY CLINTON's marriage. GAIL SHEEHY's 21-page report examines the psychological underpinnings of the First Couple's frequently anguished relationship. Among the highlights is a rare interview with Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mom, who sheds light on the First Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it...She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That...
...title, a sly gibe at John Updike, Rabbit at Rest and all the other Rabbits, is worth a smile. Here, McMurtry's Duane Moore, 62, rich, beset by family and bored to a frazzle, flummoxes his Texas town by ditching his pickup truck and walking everywhere. The book is within cat-kicking distance of funny. Real guys don't walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist...