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MIAMI: Fidel Castro will sleep just a little bit easier tonight as Miami?s Cuban exile community mourns the death of his would-be nemesis, Jorge Mas Canosa. Indeed, says TIME correspondent and former Havana bureau chief Cathy Booth, ?Castro is probably dancing all over Havana. He?s outlasted umpteen U.S. presidents, and now he?s outlasted the leader of his opposition in Miami...
Part of the reason for the dominion of purpose over progress is Harvard's excellence at guiding students along traditionally successful routes. We have fellowships tutors in each house. We have umpteen advisers to lay out a course into the most prestigious medical, law and graduate schools. The on-campus recruiting process provides a good foundation toward a high-paying career in business...
Stevie, Chris and I talked about the umpteen other Opening Day games that we had shared. We focused on some of the parking intrigue that we had creating--illegally parking somewhere in Brookline, sneaking into the Harvard Community Health Plan parking lot, parking at Lechmere and Riverside and taking the T. We tried to remember who had missed Opening Day games and for what reasons--for me it was a week of fifth grade camp, for Stevie a postponed game that didn't fit on the schedule...
...past three years the New Zealanders have poured umpteen millions of dollars into the refined shape of their boat: Black Magic. Even the name sounds victorious, and so far, no one has proved them wrong. The Kiwis have a perfect record on the water thus far, winning thirty-odd games and losing NONE...
...longer. California's George Brown, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is convinced that "a significant possibility of an impact exists that would have major consequences" and that "we can do something about it. It can't be some hare-brained scheme that would cost umpteen billion dollars for an immediate mission," he stresses, "but we can do all of the precursor planning and prepare the kind of launch vehicle necessary to do the job." Brown's words carry weight; he will preside over hearings on the subject during the current session of Congress...