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While reading her letter, I was struck by its bitter theme and almost surprised when she did not carry her argument to its logical zenith--"But MOM, I wanted to be on the Committee!" Her fourth paragraph was particularly telling when she wrote, "I applied to be on the reevaluation committee. I was not accepted." At that point, she could have chosen to proclaim her own virtues and attempted to explain why she was a strong applicant; instead, she childishly degenerated into implying that somehow ALL of the committee members are underqualified, "entrenched" pals of Mike Beys...
...skits are an exception. The Winter Dinner is Kirkland spirit at its zenith. The dining hall, lit by candles, is the scene of a fife and drum procession. Students carry a fake boar's head while accompanying the corps...on kazoo...
While the Neolithic period was just flowering in Europe, it had long since come and gone in the Middle and Near East, and a transitional epoch, known as the Chalcolithic (copper and stone) period was approaching its zenith. The first Chalcolithic culture appeared suddenly -- and mysteriously -- in the Near East in about 4000 B.C. and quickly spread toward the Indus River basin and the Mediterranean...
...Zenith Electronics, for example, the leading U.S. producer of television sets, has already moved many of its operations from Taiwan to Mexico, and two months ago closed its Asian assembly plant altogether. Without a Mexican base, Zenith guesses, it would have lost about 4,000 U.S. jobs from its Chicago circuit-board plant and its Missouri molding and assembly factory. Another 2,000 to 5,000 supplier jobs would have vanished as well...
...sure. James Paul McCartney was the son of working-class Irish parents. His father was a cotton salesman and an ex-jazz trumpeter and piano man, his mother a midwife. As a child, McCartney was a Boy Scout and a bird watcher. His first real instrument was a Zenith six-string, which he played left-handed. In 1960 he was just one of four unknown teenagers performing in the squalor of Liverpool's underground Cavern club. By 1965 the Beatles had stormed America, met the Queen and been hailed as pop prophets. By 1971 -- before any of the four...