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...very easy to overlook the day to dayaffairs of the Hiliel [amidst] the big splashyevents," says Dauber, "but Josh made sure thatnever happened...
...matter of weeks, amidst stiff lobbying assaults, Congress has approved several bills limiting where you can smoke and what you can shoot...
...Amidst this dark, frenetic atmosphere, however, a phenomenon of rebellion, of hope, has sprung up. Students are slaying the proverbial dragon of "Thou Shalt" and regretlessly pencilling in what is increasingly being called "sun time," time spent doing the non-constructive--sun bathing, playing frisbee, baseball--or even, for the more Anglophilic, cricket, in one of the more beautiful springs in recent memory...
Sure, golf takes great concentration, but so do most professions. In baseball, the ball is actually moving, but they perform amidst screaming fanatics anyway...
...living with a "critical mass" of fellow Asians will I be able to remain in touch with my peers. In fact, I wonder how I even ended up here after going to a high school that was roughly five percent Asian extracted a "great personal cost" by isolating me amidst people from other ethnic groups. This isolation must have destroyed my "sense of community" and left me unable to celebrate my ethnic heritage...