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...worked. By ninth grade, I was no longer broken-heartedly inspecting the color of the onion dip. I still made the occasional punch bowl run, but could now return to a respectable number of partners. But I still didn't like the wild new system. I resented its disorganization, its unpredictability and its unfairness...
...about reading period is that though there might be two weeks of cumulative work, very few people actually work nonstop for two weeks. As a result, students waste a lot of time and spend an even greater amount of time stressing about work undone. If we started on September ninth instead of the 18th, had only 13 weeks of classes instead of 14, and had only one week of reading period before the winter vacation, then theoretically we could hold exams before break and not come back to Harvard until mid-or late January...
...said Dole, campaigning in Iowa. The initial reports of Dugan's death said that the 38-year-old veteran died as a result of a land mine explosion in northern Bosnia. But NATO officials later confirmed that Dugan was killed when he picked up unexploded ammuntion. He is the ninth allied soldier killed in the peacekeeping operation since it began in December...
...what he lacks in charisma. His shoes are falling apart, he explains, and his watch is broken. Six or seven times a day, he ventures into rented halls and coffee shops and describes himself as the late-blooming son of a hardscrabble family who "flunked the third, seventh and ninth grades" and still got a Ph.D. He recalls after his father died watching how his mother and older brother would sit around the kitchen table each month and decide which bills to pay. The bootstrap imagery is designed to dilute Gramm's reputation as meanspirited and boost his approval rating...
...What's the pattern here, Cap?" asks Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple, the department's thickset, dandyish crime guru. Using a laser pen, Maple scrawls on an overhead map, tracing robbery patterns the way John Madden diagrams football plays. Maple circles an archipelago of red dots: muggings along Ninth Avenue. "What are you doing to take these guys...