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Every year a handful of women share Patino's fate -- the result of certain genetic anomalies. In Patino's case, and doubtless in many others, the repercussions were devastating and humiliating. Not only was she barred from competing, but she lost an athletic scholarship and watched her boyfriends walk off in confusion...
...encounter the continual setting up of straw men, the self-righteous refusal to take (or in this case recommend) the easy and popular course, even -- Lord help us! -- the incidentally-I-have-negotiated- with-Khrushchev bit. Some of the old class resentment and malice toward foes linger too. Doubtless Nixon genuinely believes Boris Yeltsin to be like Khrushchev in concealing a razor-sharp intelligence behind a somewhat oafish exterior. But when he scorns the American "foreign policy elite" for sniffing at Yeltsin because the Russian might not know which fork to use at a state banquet, he is rather obviously...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that...
Theoretically, an atomic clock could keep perfect time; the actual performance, though, depends on the electronics and such engineering details as how the microwaves hit the cesium atoms. Hewlett-Packard will doubtless come up with other refinements, but for now losing a second every 1 1/2 million years will have...
...Doubtless, the extremism of the Society's political stances reflects its largely Palestinian makeup. Unfortunately, the homogeneity of Society members' political views--rabidly Pan-Arab with nostalgic memories of the golden days of Nasser--has hampered the Society from fulfilling the aims of its founders: to expose the "rich, cultural heritage of the Arab world," as well as to serve the needs of all Arabs at Harvard...