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Unfortunately for investigators, none of this information necessarily brings them closer to catching the Unabomber. That may not happen, they say, until he makes some sort of mistake. He's already blundered in small ways -- the bomb that killed the California Forestry Association's Murray was addressed to a predecessor who retired a year ago. And a couple of bomb attempts over the years have been unsuccessful...
...predecessor, Hanselman, agrees, arguingthat administrators are largely skeptical of aCouncil that they believe does not adequatelyrepresent the student body. "I think when thefirst popularly elected president goes intoUniversity Hall," he added, "the administratorswill put more stake in his or her opinions...
This game lacked the drama of its immediate predecessor, but none of the pain. Harvard scored a run in the bottom of the first to take a 1-0 lead, and it was way downhill from there...
When it is really silly, the dumbness can be disarming, as it was with Nauman's predecessor, the American Dada gagman Man Ray. Witness early Nauman photo pieces like Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1966-67, the artist expelling a jet of water through his pursed lips. And it is fully in the tradition of Marcel Du-champ, whose puns were equally feeble. An early Nauman like From Hand to Mouth, 1967 (a wax cast of the artist's arm, shoulder and throat) is a retread of Duchamp's 1959 With My Tongue in My Cheek, a cast...
Defense Secretary William Perry cannot formally nominate White until his predecessor, John M. Deutch, gains Senate approval for his own nomination to the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to hold Deutch's confirmation hearing on April...