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...like Washington's own Great Communicator. Gorbachev's greeting to his visitors, noted Conte, was almost fulsome. He had been well briefed by aides, and spoke through an interpreter from color-coded typed notes. He made his points firmly, often with emotion and at times with humor and a trace of sardonic wit; Conte recorded that he even hit the table with his fist for emphasis. One of the charmed visitors called him quite an actor. The meeting ran on for almost four hours, even though it was only scheduled...
Many Jews and Christians trace 2,000 years of anti-Jewish persecution directly back to certain pronouncements of Jesus. In Matthew 23:37, for example, Jesus exclaims, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you . . . Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate." While dialogue aiming at better understanding has taken place between the two religions, some Jews and Christians have felt frustrated that New Testament passages have been used to support anti-Semitism...
...were two small polyps and they had got one, and we set a time later when I would go back in. And there was talk of the concern about blood. That was all dismissed because I took the further tests and examinations on that and there never was another trace. I'm a little embarrassed talking boldly about all of these plumbing secrets and everything. But I think I had an explanation for the very minute trace of blood that just once turned up in that examination and my explanation is that it was external, that I had irritated...
...laboratory dish has been studied extensively, an approach with obvious limitations. "A new gene in cell culture can't walk funny or think strange thoughts or do what it had planned to do," says David Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute and a Nobel-prizewinning biologist. "You need to trace its course through a living, breathing organism...
...roommates’ and my attempt to capitalize on the Harvard mystique is hardly original. You could probably trace the phenomenon back to boys’ books of the ’teens and ’twenties, such as Fuller at Harvard, but it certainly reached its flowering in Erich Segal’s shamelessly treacly Love Story. The fact that such a conventional story of improbable cross-class love achieved widespread popularity is attributable in large part to its setting...