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Sharmil S. Modi '99 was an avid Air Force cadet before he chose to leave ROTC in order to make an academic switch...
...since June Cleaver has domesticity been so glorified or vilified. Her avid fans tape her shows and catalog the contents on index cards. On an unofficial Martha Website, they exchange information and offer to buy back issues at twice the newsstand price. And they declare their allegiance in open messages: "When she smiles, all is peace in the world," writes one. "Whoever says she's a conniving, evil, nasty, selfish materialistic witch is really, like me, envious, frustrated, totally enamored...
...spent his days in dark pockets of Left Bank cinema clubs. He soon began to contribute to Parisian film journals, in which he wrote reviews and articles under the whispery pseudonym Hans Lucas. When his wealthy parents cut off his pocket money, he took to robbery but remained an avid fan of the cinema, even from the depths of a prison cell...
...Benjamin Franklin (the benign curmudgeon Pat Hingle) please invent air conditioning--right away? It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago. Come as a skeptic, choose favorite Founding Fathers, feel like an avid student again, shed a tear, go home thrilled...
...thousand-year rule, this glory preceded by a period of turmoil and chaos. During the dark years, church members understand that it is their destiny to sustain a light to help usher in the kingdom to come. In their preparations to do so, they shame even the most avid of secular survivalists. Church members are advised to keep one year's food and other supplies on hand at all times, and many do. The wheat-filled Welfare Square grain elevator fulfills the same principle. Of the millennium, President Hinckley says, "We hope we're preparing for it. We hope...