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...Like a cliche. But the heaviest chain strapping down my thought was shattered only after sophomore year, and not at college. It was coming home to the motherland, and presenting the new me to Mama...
...after the mayor came to office, most squeegee men and other homeless people mysteriously disappeared. But the suggestion that the mayor and some shadowy private army roam the streets late at night snatching up such unfortunates, packing them in crates and shipping them to a major national hamburger-restaurant chain, is without foundation. The mayor does drive about in an unmarked car at night, but only to ensure that all is under control in his beloved city and that crime (which he personally eliminated) and incivility never return...
...costumes) are well over a billion dollars; and celebrities are beginning to make cameo appearances. In July, for example, Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman, lately of the NBA finals, will do battle as members of opposing tag teams in a WCW match. There is even a plan for a chain of WCW theme restaurants, the first of which will open this September in Las Vegas...
Unfortunately, right now, I feel the same way. Whatever feelings of love and confidence that the situation would improve while I was away are all giving way to the reality of my suffering parents and the image of their lives, which have been a chain of problems and disappointments. I feel that if I were to devote my life and career to my country right now, my education and abilities would go to waste. I don't think I would be happy...
Bloom's appointment marks the end of a chain of job switching that began a year ago, when former Provost Albert Carnesale left Harvard to become chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles...