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...quite sure, but we have thought on this: after walking by it for four years, the University is finally putting down the fertilizer for us. The clock is ticking, and for better or for worse, we’ve reached the final 100 meters of the bell lap. Aside from the predictable thoughts of “I hate this place and everyone in it,” seniors will also be looking towards the future with questions like, “I wonder how soon after getting home my parents will leave me alone so I can masturbate...
...hotel bar is crowded, and receptionists and bell hops rush around the brightly lit entrance hall. Tucked in the back of the lobby, a small group of sixty-something men and women mull around a buffet table. They hug like they’re at a family reunion and grab margaritas from the bar, all the while swapping stories about what they’ve been up to for the past forty years...
...those stories came out of the village of Bogue Chitto, Ala., where a Courier reporter found that the residents, overwhelmingly black, had no telephones. The Southern Bell Telephone Company had guaranteed the ramshackle community phone service, but while white neighbors had been chatting on their phones for months, the black residents were left with no connection to the outside world...
...Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...City what a girl from Queens could do: namely, spell. They were late, and I was nervous. Turns out it was never meant to be, because when I spelled ‘embolism’ as ‘embulism’ (the speaker mispronounced it, I swear), the bell rang and my career as a competitive speller was D-O-N-E, with a capital D. The girl next to me got the word measles, and I left the stage tearfully.I promise I’ve moved on.Since the event seven years ago, I have hardly thought about...