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Mecham, 63, stumbled into the spotlight early last year, when -- in his first major act as Governor -- he canceled the state's observation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That move was followed up with a yearlong string of gaffes and biased statements that managed to alienate blacks, women, gays and, finally, the Governor's fellow Republicans. Mecham's reputation hit bottom last month, when he and his brother Willard were indicted by a state grand jury for willfully concealing a $350,000 loan made to his election campaign by a real estate developer. Both pleaded not guilty...
...installation of FTS-2000 could be delayed a year or two while the investigations take place. The Government has estimated that it will lose $100 million for every year that it must go on using its antiquated phone system. Says Ringling: "Government workers could end up using cans and string waiting for them to settle this." As for Soni, the enigmatic engineer faces potential criminal charges...
...orchestra has received orders for crashing cymbals, female french horn players, and a string quartet, as well as more common requests, according to Melissa Feliciano '90, who is organizing the project...
...ability to perceive complex truths without doodling long equations on paper astounds his colleagues. "He has an ability to visualize four- dimensional geometry that is almost unique," says Werner Israel, a University of Alberta physicist who has collaborated with Hawking in relating mini-black holes to the new cosmic-string theories. Observes Kolb: "It's like Michael Jordan playing basketball. No one can tell Jordan what moves to make. It's intuition. It's feeling. Hawking has a remarkable amount of intuition...
Midway through Chekhov's last play, written as he was dying, a plangent twang is heard by the members and hangers-on of a once grand family on the verge of eviction from its estate. Everybody perceives the sound, which Chekhov likens in the stage directions to a snapping string, but each has his own sense of what it meant. To one, it suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints...