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Neither are the bone-weary hackers who trudge out of Wean Hall at dawn's first light. They repair to dorm rooms and Victorian houses in quiet neighborhoods to spend the day in owl-like slumber, skipping both meals and classes. As dusk descends, they will meander back to the computer rooms, returning to the fluorescent comfort of typed instruction and programmed response, ready to hack again...
...fashion corps turns up for the yearly ritual of checking out what's new for fall. The action they see, and, indeed, of which they become part, has the trappings of drama, the slow-motion choreography of a dream, the bleary musicality of an after-hours club at dawn. It also has the conviviality of a carnival, the commercialism of an appliance convention, the congenial corruption of a sideshow. The theater of fashion...
Kennedy was in Hawaii when the American University draft was finished. Sorensen flew out, and the two polished it, flew back through a Sunday night, landing in Washington at dawn on Monday. Kennedy stopped at the White House to shower and change clothes. Before a few hundred people he spoke his words for our time: "I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war-and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task...
Magpie to mopoke: diurnal and nocturnal Australian birds; hence, "dawn to dusk...
...felt like a minority," said Dawn Harrington, a Michigan State junior, one of the few students who made the trip. "But it's like that at all the away games, and we do the same thing to opposing fans at home...