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...years now, and the one thing that’s really impressive this cycle is the motivation of the youth vote,” he said. “I never could figure out why the 18 to 24 age demographic didn’t catch fire beforehand and why they were reluctant to get involved.” “When I was at Washington University [in St. Louis], the atmosphere was electric,” Halcro added. “The student body was unbelievable in terms of its enthusiasm for the election, an important fact because...
...Daniel C. Norris ’12 said while carrying a handful of program pamphlets. Norris is thinking of spending a summer in St. Petersburg with the Harvard Summer School program, taking courses in second year Russian and Russian culture. Though he had learned about the program beforehand, he said he prefers speaking to representatives in person who “have more information than you could get from the Web site.” Representing the International Honors Program, Jessica Lockrem said most students she encountered were interested in summer programs rather than term-time study...
...intelligible and their reasoning sequential - a listener will have to be able to follow the logic of what you're saying - which means that you will have to know enough about your topic to organize your statements in a coherent way. (But you cannot do much of this organizing beforehand; it has to occur at the same time you're speaking.) ... You're trying to communicate in real time with someone you cannot see or hear responses from; and though you're communicating in speech, your remarks cannot have any of the fragmentary, repetitive, garbled qualities of real interhuman speech...
...rain let up long enough yesterday afternoon for my other brother, Matt, and his new wife Holly to get married. Since my parents were the only ones in our family with power and water, they came over here for showers and lunch beforehand. My sister also showed up - looking for a shower and some air conditioning. Houston was built on a filled swamp, and it's hot and humid on the best of days in the summer. Throw in a hurricane and torrential rain storms, and it's a miserable place to be without air conditioning...
...regards reporters warily and from a distance, except for a brief meet and greet on her campaign plane that was strictly off the record. Onstage, she tells the same teleprompter jokes every day, and her husband Todd laughs at them as if he had never heard them before. Beforehand and afterward, Palin lunges into the crowds, shaking hands in her 3-in. heels. "I'm excited, but I'd like to see her interviewed first," says Republican Kim Ahaus, a middle-aged woman from Lebanon, Ohio, who has not yet been sold on the fairy tale...