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This isn’t a blip. In 1996, the College made the decision to raise the number of first-years entering the College by 30 per annum. Apley Court was added to accommodate the increase in first-years, and the number of transfer students has been accordingly reduced to make room for the extra students in the upperclass houses...
...recently as a decade ago, Indian tribes were barely a blip on the special-interest radar screen. But since 1993, they have contributed $8.6 million to federal candidates. In the Clinton years, most of the money went to Democrats. During his second run for office, in 1996, tribes handed out a total of $1.9 million, 86% of it to Democrats. But with a Republican in the White House, Indian tribes have shifted the target of their largesse. So far this year, 56% of the $1.4 million they have donated to federal campaigns has gone to the G.O.P. The tribes have...
Hauser said the dip in undergraduate grades is a blip, and that the Faculty needs to “see if it’s a meaningful blip or in fact irrelevant...
Even as you successfully tuck the gremlin away for now, reassuring yourself that the blip is a one-time misstep, inconsequential in the scheme of things, lingering doubts remain, a crack in your self-confidence. But then you suffer the more common minor annoyances of everyday life—you make a comment that is quickly dismissed in section as irrelevant, a close friend doesn’t say ‘hi’ on the street, or you feel passed over in an extracurricular—and the self-esteem gremlin once again rears its ugly head. Except...
...this point I could no longer ignore the quickly escalating situation. Within a week Shelley had gone from being a blip on an otherwise tranquil radar of reliable e-mail correspondence to being my alter ego. She was receiving the bulk of my social e-mails, had dissed Temple Simpson (twice!) and possibly slept with Anthony Herrera. Who was this woman who was old enough to be the mother of Jon Myungsoo Lee (were he not Korean)? I was determined to put a stop to her involuntary invasion of my life...