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...Anybody that I beat there I was really glad to beat," Beukema said. "They were all really good...
...election in 1992 of having harassed more than two dozen women over his career. After stonewalling inquiries and then impugning the sexual histories of his accusers, he apologized for his behavior and entered an alcohol-rehabilitation program. When his Senate colleagues started shunning him, he kept on smiling and glad-handing. He also began to oppose issues that Dole opposed, such as requiring employers to pay for workers' health insurance. Packwood had once supported such legislation...
Michael Chabon's likable first novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" -- a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay -- was received with glad cries that still reverberated when his short story collection, "A Model World," appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing...
...agree to serving on yet another committee, the rewards can outweigh the minor time commitment required. Although professors' first reaction when asked to serve on a committee is often a tired sigh, when they do sit on relatively effective committees such as the EPC, they often say they are glad to have spent the time doing something productive for the College...
Thomas N. Bisson, history department chair, said that he was glad for his students that the process was over...