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...that was beneficial,” he adds.William P. Pierskalla ’56 echoes Suckow’s recollections.“When we came there, it was apparently a different student body than before World War II, because that was apparently more wealthy people and primarily East-coast,” he says. “We had a lot of GIs from the war and scholarship students.” According to Pierskalla, The College was in the process of attempting to diversify its student body, at least geographically.“I’m probably...
...conveyed Kelly's premise with conviction, he had no intention of celebrating it: rather digitization, he told the audience, was a "grisly" scenario, one that would lead to readers treating books like music, downloading and cutting them into playlist-like "snippets." The word "snippets" was delivered with an East Coast snap - teeth into an October apple - for maximum onomatopoetic effect...
...expansion wasn't complicated enough, Europe woke up last week to find a brand-new baby on its doorstep: the tiny republic of Montenegro, tucked between Albania and Croatia on the eastern Adriatic coast. By a slight majority, Montenegrins voted to break away from Serbia, driving the last nail in the coffin of what was once called Yugoslavia. It was a great victory for the leading advocate of independence, Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, whose supporters were out on the streets of Podgorica, Cetinje and Budva celebrating, dressed in the bright red of their newly minted nation and waving flags, before...
...average, two people per month are either seen jumping or found in the water. (Many more are believed to jump at night, after the pedestrian walkway is officially closed, and their bodies are sucked out to sea and never found.) What about the cost to the Coast Guard of retrieving bodies? And how can that be balanced against the cost of wasted lives? No one seems to know what those numbers...
...Then] the Coast Guard came. Two men jumped in the water, two more pulled me up with their hands. They saved my butt...