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...hours before sundown, the wagon train made camp. I had walked only a few miles that day, but I was parched and exhausted. A meal was served. I sat in the dirt and devoured a plate of meat loaf, while around me devout believers watered horses, repaired bent wagon wheels, fed bottles to crying infants. In just a few days, to quote their ancestors, they would cross the mountains and be "safe in Zion." I could not help wishing them well. In their epic trek across Smith's American Eden, they have lost more paradises than they've found...
...swollen, discolored result means that the chairman is hard-pressed to fight departmental budget wars with dignity. He has an unsatisfactory negotiation with the campus executive officer, a lizard whose "carefully calculated sincerity is almost indistinguishable from the real thing." This fellow, of course, is bent on downsizing what once was called the liberal arts. Devereaux rebels, and with TV cameras churning (dignitaries are cutting the ribbon for a grand new engineering complex), he grabs a goose from the campus pond and threatens to kill it and another like it every day until the English department gets its funding...
...happens too often is that people try to address issues they don't know anything about. They should focus on small, practical issues. Instead they're just floating in the clouds," says Appelbaum, whose government thesis, titled "The Imperial Judiciary," takes issue with the Supreme Court's increasingly activist bent. "Government is a faithful servant and a fearful master...
Reading period--the mere mention of the phrase conjures up images of pre-med students bent over chemistry texts in Cabot Library cubicles, seniors' tanning in the MAC Quad and first-years sprinting across the Yard at 4:53 p.m. to hand in that last Expos paper...
When the discussion turned to the Class' political bent, there was some protest from the audience...