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...than $50. I have an irrational expectation that somehow by making numerous visits to the Coop, the grand total of the cost of my books will be less than the cost if I'd just bought them all at one fell swoop. Needless to say my technique is neither wise nor efficient and my only release is to complain bitterly. How dare they charge me $190 for a sourcebook--a pile of Xeroxes stapled together? I won't join them--I won't give them the satisfaction of having my name listed as a Coop member...
...enigmatic composer who died while composing both this score, and on a more macabre note, his own Requiem. For this reason, the opera has been subject to numerous musical adjustments, scene juxtapositions, and idiosyncratic interpretations since it was first performed in 1880. The Dunster House Opera made some wise choices, sticking with the most traditional of these versions, using English spoken dialogue in place of French recitative, and abbreviating the length of the opera...
...Vietnam." Albright's orientation is used to explain her willingness to confront bullies with force. But the Munich Conference in 1938 that gave Hitler the green light to annex one-third of Czechoslovakia carried many lessons beyond the dangers of appeasement, and one was surely that it is never wise to play from a position of weakness. Albright knew early on that you can't do a thing in foreign policy without power. So she didn't waste any time "establishing her presence," as an observer puts...
...Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...very wise woman once told me that if you can identify one ideology and travel with it across battlefields which fight against it in the course of your life and still maintain that same belief even though it has been challenged to the very root, even though you oscillated here and there, then that belief is yours for life. Such an experience it has been for me at Harvard, and this personal growth to me is just as valuable as any social change that may have occurred in my time here as well...