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...absolute minimum a significant part of its student body—remains a bigoted and close-minded place. The targets of abuse are all that are different, not the mindset that some are too unworthy, too unintelligent, or simply too annoying to grace our campus on even the briefest of visits...
...last night’s U.S. Open quarterfinal stretched into the wee hours of the morning, James Blake looked up at the scoreboard and smiled. His early two-set lead over Andre Agassi had dissolved into a five-set stalemate, and yet just before the final tiebreak, for the briefest of instants, Blake honored the context of his match...
Carlin's tenure, one of the briefest in history, was abbreviated by a need for more forceful management. Said Board Chairman John McKean: "The governors did lose confidence in Mr. Carlin. We think we can do better." Helped by increases in all postal rates, including a boost in first-class stamps from 20¢ to 22¢ last February, the service ran a $479 million surplus in the final quarter of 1985 and was carrying more mail than ever, 140 billion pieces to 73.8 million businesses and households last year. Carlin, though, was seen as cut from the old post-office mold...
With the Crimson 3:45 through a five-minute penalty kill, Grumet-Morris looked away for the briefest of moments and allowed a shot by Terriers blueliner Sean Sullivan to ricochet off the back of his skate and into the goal...
...plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds and the press and the party meetings, as Sonia Gandhi stands alone in a field, hugging the poorest of India's poor, it is difficult to tell whose grin is wider...