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...emergency meeting called by Undergraduate Council Chair Michael P. Beys '94 last night amidst questions and confusion about the election process, R. Gin Lo '94 was unanimously voted overseer of the upcoming general election...
...people quailed before the mighty typesetter, I loved it. I figured out what all the weird leading keys on the side of the keyboard actually meant and could fix the buffer with a good whack to the side. Some of my happiest memories of high school are of working amidst the smell of developer fluid...
...Amidst the blinking lights, the computers and the shielded toggle switches, dispatchers wait by the phones, ready to respond to anything from a clogged dormitory toilet to a fire in a Harvard museum that houses priceless treasures...
...write amidst this practiced deference, though, you risk filling your story with quotations that only give a vague indication of an individual's real thoughts. One sub-cabinet member told me, "My role is to do the best job I can representing the interest of the President Two possible translations: "Everything's being decided at the top." Or, "I won't tell you anything...
...machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam, Watergate, and Iran-contra. We are witness to the highest divorce rate ever . . . Let the new generation in power know we are not only watching, but participating...