Word: switches
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However, if you're a student whose classes meet through reading period, who has four finals and four final papers, two of which are due right after winter break, and dreams of a week-long Thanksgiving break and a fall semester that ends in December, you might want to switch concentrations (or schools) and take note of Dean Lewis' words, from a recent e-mail message: "I wonder why we would want to compete to be number one in number of vacation days. Having no classes at all would guarantee victory in that competition. At the prices we charge...
...right one pushes to keep it in a dive. Gravity and the two powerful Pratt & Whitney engines on the Boeing 767 continue to force the plane down. A second later, a small shield is flicked up over the twin-engine control levers on the central console, and both engines switch off. Four seconds after that, the plane's speed brakes, panels deployed atop the wings rise into the airstream, disrupting the lift in an effort to slow down the descent. Suddenly, the plane begins to climb...
...successor with partisan suspicion. But McKinnon, 44, was won over after a dinner with Bush in 1997. He went to work producing the TV ads for the Governor's landslide re-election campaign in 1998, and is now running Bush's media campaign for President. McKinnon's party switch still appalls many Democratic friends. Paul Begala, a former Clinton adviser, attributes it to "a mid-life crisis." McKinnon prefers to call it "a mid-life awakening...
...current job: as a teenager, he ran away to Nashville, Tenn., with dreams of becoming a country-music star; he wrote songs under Kris Kristofferson's tutelage and almost had one of his numbers recorded by Elvis Presley. "But Elvis passed away," says McKinnon ruefully. On making the switch from music to politics, he observes, "I turned to show business for ugly people...
...technique that's supposed to speed up the calibration and learning process. Our one day with it proved only that the drill sergeants aren't any better at learning our tricks than we are - and probably worse. It was total chaos, and half our platoon never even got to switch the things...