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...black-and-white photograph on the wall of his Mass. Hall office, Alan J. Stone looks exhausted, staring into the middle distance as he sits in the Oval Office. President Clinton reads a draft of an address penned by Stone during long and sleepless nights, while several Clinton advisors look to the president, waiting for him to speak before they pass judgment on the speech...
Moran, who spent sleepless nights going over this week's tips, agrees that the "ideal" way to chase suspects is through "proper, normal, investigative" channels. But he says eliciting leads from civilians is a "new front in the war" against sexual predators, one that he expects will continue to be effective because of a collective empathy for the well-being of children. Interpol will almost naturally take the lead in such cases because Internet clues as to where child abuse may have taken place are never clear. Determining the locale potentially requires a global search...
Theses are labors of love. Students spend up to a year researching and writing them, countless sleepless nights working on them, and hopefully are proud of the product that they hand in. They are supposed to be the capstone to students’ four years of education—the first “real” contribution that students make to the scholarly community. The creation of a website to save all senior theses—created by Harvard College Free Culture, a student group—should be welcomed as a great addition to the campus and Harvard?...
People tell themselves stories to survive, and politicians probably more than most. They weave mythologies to keep them going in the face of ridiculous conditions: sleepless weeks of unending town hall meetings, airplane flights, conference calls and attacks on their character, not to mention the microscopic glare of the carnivorous press always predicting their coming demise. For Huckabee, the tale that keeps him going has its roots before puberty, in that student council election. He still sees himself as he was then, the outsider with the skill and determination to out-hustle the world's popular kids...
Several thousand miles and a world away, Barack Obama is campaigning to change American politics. But in the tiny farmstead where his father used to herd goats, his Kenyan relatives are praying for anything but more political upheaval. "We are spending sleepless nights praying that peace will prevail," says the 86-year-old woman whom the presidential contender calls Granny Sarah...