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...Games approach, Thomas reflects, "This last amateur year has been like a long chapter finally closing. A new one will open up then. Back to Stanford, on to medical school. I never wanted to feel that if I didn't win the gold medal, I was nothing. I'm not worried anymore." Her mother says, "When I look back now, it isn't the money or the miles I think of, it's + all the years she skated well. All the times she quit, all the times I quit. Luckily, we never quit together." The Olympic theme piped increasingly...
...accurately describes the , bulk of the contents: a sweeping survey of the shifting balance of power over five centuries. The book could easily serve as an introductory history text for very bright undergraduates. But Kennedy is not content to end his story in the present. His final chapter, "To the 21st Century," ventures to predict which nations will prosper and decline in the near future. Astrologers do this sort of thing all the time; when a respected historian tries his hand, people pay attention...
...letters from the deans of eight of Harvard's nine faculties are the most recent chapter in a University-wide reassessment of fundraising practices. Bok ordered the deans to review those procedures last November in the wake of embarassing disclosures about the Kennedy School of Government's fundraising...
...sound of pages turning, 659 leaves rustling. The 659 pages of Tom Wolfe's first novel. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Have to finish this chapter. The next. And then it explodes. Fingers are flying. A blur. The End of The Book...
...these people his topic--for the reader, his execution is superb. Wolfe's journalistic style translates exceptionally well to the novelistic form. The story itself is punctuated with staccato syllables and stream of consciousness musings. Wolfe communicates with the reader on a sensory level that subsumes traditional language. The chapter called "The King of the Jungle," begins with this onomonopaeic passage...