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...William F. Weld '66, who was defeated by U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry in this fall's senatorial race, entered the hall with a button that read "Kerry For Senate" on one lapel, and one that proclaimed his opposition to the South Boston stadium on the other...
...delightfully easy to enjoy Landscape for its simple aesthetics, and nothing more: The piece is drenched with both wonders for the eye to view and metaphors for the mind to play with. "Fundamentally, metaphor is the basic unit of thought," Reynolds declares as she presses a small button to the exhibit's right...
...cyclical critter was due to hatch again anyway, but last week's revelation that Scottish scientists had succeeded in cloning a sheep amounted to a final whack at the snooze button. Now investors are wide awake to the potential wonders of biotechnology for the first time since a euphoric rally in those stocks in 1991. If you're a doctor or scientist, go ahead and take your best shot. Biotech certainly holds great promise, and you may well understand enough to pick the few stocks that will thrive. But overall the industry has been so consistently disappointing that laymen should...
...airwaves. Only Westinghouse/CBS is bigger, thanks to its purchase last year of Infinity Broadcasting for $4.9 billion. Does consolidation mean homogenization? No, says Evergreen CEO Scott K. Ginsburg. Stations succeed only on the virtue of their programming. Says he: "The audience has no idea when they press a button which company owns the station...
...wall, but his sister Bella, 15, was not. The aging poet remembers what happened next with understated anguish: "The burst door. Wood ripped from hinges, cracking like ice under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles on the floor. I heard the spray of buttons, little white teeth...