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...This works out pretty well for us here,” says Director of Environmental Health and Safety Joe Griffin, standing amidst the brand-new cubicles inside. “At lunchtime, it’s very nice. People can walk over to the river to eat lunch...
...Amidst the dopeyness of the basketball scenes and all the scattered goofiness, the overlaying theme of the movie is that integrity is more important than popularity and freakishly dense body hair. That and wildly, ridiculously, hilariously sucky basketball skills...
...Luckily, amidst all these depressing encounters, there emerges a portrait of a smart, funny young woman struggling to find herself, written with the unselfconscious, often hyperbolic prose of a typical teenager. "...Ricky Ricky Ricky Wasserman, that exquisitely handsome boy," reads one description. Elsewhere she imagines seeing Monroe in twenty years when he will visit her and talk to her husband and give her "funny secret looks from across the table...and a tear will force its way from eye..." Thanks to Minnie's interest in drawing, "Diary" also has the unusual theme of showing a budding comix artist. Robert Crumb...
...Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm). The website, which was written and designed by Carl Hepburn, a post-graduate physics major at the University of Essex, UK, has been around for two years, since Hepburn celebrated his admiration by placing the famous pop star amidst descriptions of valence and conduction bands...
...present, the ombudsman’s function is only vaguely defined. There are no guidelines for Ehrenreich’s specific day-to-day responsibilities or procedures for mediation. As soon as possible, he must carve out a meaningful role for the ombudsman amidst the maelstrom of disputes swirling among members of the University community. Creating a well-defined niche for impartial, informal conflict resolution will provide a great benefit to the Harvard community—and given the number of clashing ideas on campus, the ombudsperson’s office may soon need reinforcements...