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...things did not start well. We'd arranged a 5 a.m. start in the hope of crossing the 614 miles of unpaved road to the eastern town of Abeche by nightfall. Bishaq was not only five and a half hours late, but come 5 p.m., as we passed a dust-blown town called Mongo, he suddenly swerved through some metal gates, pulled up in a dusty courtyard, stepped out and ambled away with the word: "Hotel...
...When the dust cleared, the overall nightly news audience was around 25 million and gradually falling, much as before. And Gibson, the one anchor to have a bit of success, was the anti-Couric: avuncular, male, older (he replaced Elizabeth Vargas, two decades his junior) and unreliant on innovations like Op-Ed segments. Hiring him implied an entirely different view of TV news and its future. CBS was programming for the viewers network news wanted. ABC was programming to keep the viewers network news already had, for as long as the Grim Reaper would permit...
...After living through [Monday], We feel really confident that we’ll be able to get through the next few weeks easily,” she said. “I don’t want to say the dust is settled, but we’re way ahead of schedule...
...chance.” In the third game, it was no question who was in control. Harvard took a 3-0 lead with Nelson serving, and after trading points until the score was 8-6, the Crimson racked up a 9-2 run, leaving the Pioneers in the dust, 17-8. Harvard maintained a solid lead, hitting .688 compared to Sacred Heart’s .091, as Weitzen slammed down a kill for a 29-14 lead and junior Jamie Crooks finished off the match with a kill of his own. “I was really happy with that...
...with a resounding 82 percent of the vote. That spring, however, the administrators all shook their heads in unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat expressly forbidding termbill fees. We found ourselves shrugged off into meetings with assistants, all the fall’s energy blowing away like dust in the proverbial wind. As a freshman, I was in way over my head. Fresh off Lester Brown’s “Eco-Economy,” a Bible for anti-capitalist environmentalists everywhere, I was full of big ideas and bluster, little of which I really understood...