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...Harvard was that of a provincial. The admissions office appeared committed to having every state represented, and in that class I alone represented Montana. It soon became clear that no small part of the purpose of my education was to eliminate as much of my provincialism as could be wrung out of me, and in this endeavor I was a willing accomplice. As it turned out, though, I could never be anything but provincial. When Harvard was kind enough to invite me back this fall, I came as a far less naive but far more committed westerner than when...
...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...
...some of them from their beds. He reminded them that while negotiators agreed to educational tax breaks that Clinton had wanted, they also accepted Republican demands for a capital-gains rate cut, an increase in the estate-tax exemption and a $500-per-child tax credit. Altogether Republicans had wrung $85 billion in net tax cuts out of the President, $60 billion more than he had first proposed. Plus Gingrich was able to argue that the deal's $115 billion in Medicare savings, in which the parties split their difference, would rid the G.O.P. for a while of the issue...
Four years ago, when she was 47, Nina Shandler turned into a red-eyed wretch, wrung out by hot flashes that banished sleep. There she was, lying in bed, soaking in her own sweat, awakened "at two-hour intervals every single night by a self-generated tropical typhoon." She knew the term hot flash but hadn't expected to encounter one this side of 50. What conventional wisdom had neglected to convey to Shandler is that long before menopause occurs and menstrual cycles cease, women in their 30s and 40s can be subject to distressing symptoms. Like adolescence in reverse...
...soggy Harvard community wrung out, mopped up and towelled off yesterday in the aftermath of the weekend's ferocious winds and rain...