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...people watched Nick, and he expects that his fifteen minutes of fame will help him get a job as an army lawyer. “At least it gives us something to talk about in the interview...
ELECTED. MANNY DIAZ, 47, previously obscure lawyer who rose to fame by representing the relatives of temporary Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez--a fact appreciated by many of Miami's 123,000 Cuban Americans, whose votes were decisive; as mayor of Miami...
...Harvard, the fame of the professors can sometimes obscure the poor teaching that goes on in section. But discussion sections can provide students’ most important academic experiences. Providing minimum standards, giving TFs the tools to become better teachers and bringing in more experienced instructors from outside Harvard would improve the quality of both teaching and learning in the College...
...outlets, Washington, New York. Flu-like symptoms and a 60-day regimen of Cipro have come to separate the sheep from the goats, the cognoscenti from the provincials. We want anthrax because it would mean that someone, somewhere, thinks we are important enough to kill. The American preoccupation with fame isn’t dead; it’s just dormant. In peacetime, a book contract or bodyguard or a big pair of designer sunglasses trumpet an intriguing, even dangerous level of fame. In wartime, that same status is signaled by a white powder spilling from an envelope. We want...
...course, we shouldn’t wish for anthrax. Inhalation anthrax is a brutal disease, killing victims who do not distinguish their flu-like symptoms from the common flu in time to take the life-saving antibiotics. Even the most vainglorious of us cannot really want their fame confirmed by death. Neither do we need an anthrax infection to confirm our solidarity with victims of terrorism. If the joke about being infected by anthrax lingers, as it seems likely to do well into cold season, it shouldn’t be repeated as it is now, in tones revealing equal...