Word: william
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...degree of delicacy highly attractive in a man. But in Hugh Grant this delicacy is taken to an almost absurd level, and it quickly becomes a defining motif of almost all of his films. Notting Hill, Grant's first feature of the summer, is no exception. As bookstore owner William Thacker, Grant revels in his characters inability to get anything in order, whether it's his business, his love life or his housing situation. Enter Julia Roberts as the hopelessly flaky and confused American superstar Anna Scott, and you have a match made in heaven. Watching these two lost souls...
Both Lewis and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 said the modification in the policy will create a friendlier admissions process...
...They are an attractive tool for the inexpensive spreading of death," explains William M. Arkin, the chief military consultant to Human Rights Watch, which issued a report about the danger of duds titled "Ticking Time Bombs." The report states that the actual dud rate, as measured in the Gulf War, was close to a quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction...
...protein's sequence was first analyzed at the Harvard Microchemistry Facility. William S. Lane, director of the facility, said that although his lab's high-tech equipment aided the discovery, it is the Folkman lab that should be congratulated...
...high for a natural disaster in an industrialized country, and may provoke longer-term questions about patterns of development. "Natural disasters worldwide have increased eightfold since the 1970s, but there?s been very little concern for environmental issues in the rush to make money," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Events such as the Taiwan quake may prompt governments to think beyond the narrow concerns of the economy in approaching issues of development and urbanization...