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...seem impossible. Many extension school students are more present on campus than students at the college realize. At the Fly Club’s recent Calypso party, for example, Emma C. Samelson-Jones ’02 voiced her happiness when she entered the club’s backyard and realized one of her favorite friends at the extension school was playing the drums with the live salsa band commissioned for the event. And Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 can tell you that at least one extension school student appeared at the common casting audition...
...athlete, or a dancer, or a journal editor, seems itself like a lofty goal. But many extension school students are used to taking on so many roles that many of them think they can do it all. Consider Linda’s words as she stood in the backyard in the Fly, the night before she’d have to wake up early in the morning to work behind the counter at Starbucks...
...routine—walking the dog, playing with the children, grabbing sandwiches at Oxford Spa—Jenkins’ neighbors have spent the past nine days unsure, struggling to regain their footing after last week’s terrorist attacks touched them, quite literally, in their own backyard...
...about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There, a 4,500-acre community is expected to be built on a reclaimed polluting ground. Wheat grows there...
...superstar. Ricky and Jennifer merely jumped into the mainstream; Anthony's salsa album could redirect it. But don't call him a crossover. He's allergic to the word. "What did I cross over from?" he asks. "I'm as American as anybody. I was born in your backyard...