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...like to commend the University Housing Office for their professional handling of the First-Year lottery results. As anxious residents of Thayer Hall waited patiently for word of their randomized fate, a considerate Housing Officer, charged with hand-delivering the envelopes containing the lottery results, saw fit to instead deposit them in a lovely pile in front of the dorm elevator. There the abandoned envelopes sat as the morning wore on and as rising anticipation ate away at the souls of dorm inhabitants...
...time, we may be able to salvage Harvard's soul. In the past we have only paid lip service to the "unfortunately competitive atmosphere." Starting today, let's all try to relax. At the very least, when we leave the last lecture of the day, let's deposit some of our psychosis at the door and head home to raise our glasses in congenial merriment...
When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced last week, "it would form a lake 16 ft. deep and four football fields around...
...casket showrooms to ensure that customers buy caskets with far better profit margins. At the same time, they cut their costs by buying caskets and other materiel de mort at volume discounts and by linking funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house on the corner, but these days you have no guarantee he will stay there. This centralization can increase the risk of administrative errors like the one that occurred recently in Arizona when an SCI cluster facility mistakenly cremated...
Could this remark have been made? Could a flight attendant, bending close to deposit a piece of spandex chicken on the tray of a nearby traveler, have overheard? Could she have passed the word along to her superiors? Could this have been used by the airline barons as an excuse for airlines to haul people from Philadelphia to Boston without a morsel...