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Until he discovered his love for mathematics, his attitude toward school continued to be indifferent. As a teenage refugee from Hitler, and then as a transient English boarding school student, Bott recalls shingling stables and pursuing his interest in electrical fuses more than attending classes...
Edward Wagner, who voted at Gund Hall and is an editor of the conservative Boston Mercury, cited the transient nature of student residence as a reason for low turnout...
Immediately after being diagnosed in August of 1995, Matt began intensive chemotherapy treatment in New York. Originally from New Canaan, Con- ecticut, the Stauffer family began a transient existence as they tirelessly worked to have at least two people by Matt's side at all times...
...visual puns, like a cluster of sleeping sheep in Common Dream, or a languid hose seeping water on the floor in Hose (Manguera Dormida). His small, subtle observations play beautifully off Vija Celmins' meticulous renderings of expansive night skies and the late Felix Gonzalez Torres' monumental billboard of transient footprints in the sand...
Sure, Democrats could win the presidency again in 2000, particularly if the Republicans hold Congress in 1998 and, by attacking popular government programs, re-create the 1996 fear that a Democratic President is needed to block the run-amuck right. But this coalition looks weaker and more transient than the 1968-92 majority by which the Republicans controlled the White House for 20 out of 24 years...