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Both Dent and McKay made it through the labyrinthine tenure process, from the departmental to the Faculty level, finally receiving the nod of the University's president himself--before turning down the offer...
...with last year's selection, AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, our choice is less a nod to one striking year than an acknowledgment of the culmination of an ongoing process. Intel's chips have been around for nearly three decades, but 1997 was the year Grove's life's work reached full flower. It was the year cell phones, Websites and E-mail became ubiquitous, the year the global economy, for good and ill, became an undeniable reality. Intel chips hum at the center of everything from coffee machines to Hollywood's special effects to Wall Street's trading desks...
...through more standards and new tunes, pausing only once to allow the leader to introduce his band. In fact, Dylan rarely even altered his facial expression, basically maintaining a deadpan scowl for the duration of the performance. Even his cues to the band were minimal, with only a stiff nod to the drummer signifying the end of a tune...
...women protest; most nod in agreement. After coffee and pie, the meeting breaks up. The ladies of the club climb into their cars and drive home on roads crowded with commuters bound for night duty at Airborne Express. Some of those long-distance commuters are no doubt thinking about moving to Wilmington. It's such a tranquil little town...
...named Guy Millner. In 1994, armed with $1.6 million of his own money, Millner jumped into Georgia's gubernatorial race and won the Republican primary before losing narrowly to incumbent Democrat Zell Miller. Two years later, Millner ran for Georgia's vacant U.S. Senate seat--again gaining the G.O.P. nod, and again falling short in the general election. Political wags figured he was finished, or possibly broke--Millner had footed $6.4 million of that campaign's costs. But this summer Millner surprised them and announced his candidacy for Governor in 1998. Polls show him ahead by 10 points...