Word: bus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refusal to participate directly in ROTC may discourage some high school students interested in the program from applying to Harvard. But the College's compromise is a reasonable one--MIT is not so far away. In this case, the University is keeping opportunities open to students--only a bus ride along the river--and maintaining its principles...
...other council business, Springfest allocations for security, food and a shuttle bus to the Quad were approved almost unanimously. Rachel E. Barber '99, who opposed the bill, questioned how much council money would go towards the event...
...short, I don't expect to make friends in odd places, like the local bar or the cross town bus. I'm planning to meet people who share some sort of common interest with me: colleagues at work, other members of the synagogue I join, people I meet through other friends...
Kevorkian was candid about his lack of legal expertise. "If I looked inept, I was--in law. But I'm articulate in English." Though peppered with objections, he nevertheless turned his closing arguments into personal testimony on euthanasia and on his crusade. Comparing himself to Rosa Parks on the bus and to Martin Luther King Jr., Kevorkian told the jury that "there are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. Honestly now, do you see what [the prosecution] calls a killer? If you do, then you must convict. If you don't think I'm a criminal...
Besides, working on the rough edge of nature offers its vagrant epiphanies. "One day," Chen recalls, "it started raining. We got on the bus, and everyone was so tired, they dozed off. Except for me; I'm an insomniac. I was listening to Rachmaninoff and staring out the window. The black clouds were rolling, but at the end of the horizon a strip of blue showed up, then a rainbow. It was very intense--strong and beautiful, like a gate to heaven. I woke everybody up, and we got it in the movie. So seldom do you see beauty face...