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Julian C. Sancton '03 is a history concentrator in Leverett House who smugly derides his political and social superiors with caricatures from the comfort of his desk...
...they suffered during their first few days at work - staffers for former president Bush reportedly removed the cords connecting receivers to phones and left office furniture spackled with photographs of the elder Bush and Bush-Quayle campaign stickers. One staff member remembers an especially prescient note left in a desk occupied by a Bush aide. It read, simply, "We'll be back...
...prominent law firm. But she shared the news of her condition--in confidence, she thought--with her supervisor. In no time, people began to express condolences. "It was awful-- people coming up to me in the elevators, tapping me on the shoulder while I was at my desk," says the mother of two. Worse by far, Quick was told her position was being dissolved, and she was given three months' notice of termination. The news was heartbreaking. "I loved my work," she says. "I had a great track record and was constantly promoted. I found out I was sick...
Walking into the empty hall, it reminded me of a modern-day Pompeii. Nearly everything was the same as it had been when we had left. Sodas sat half drunk, a full bottle of aspirin lay across one mini-desk. An unordinary moment in my life had been preserved...
...were to ask, in the usual sociological way, what relic an alien culture might use to intuit our pedagogy, my vote for the blackboard would be immediate. Here is an artifact whose interdisciplinary presence is rivaled only by the desk and the pencil. Greek classes, French classes, math classes and Core classes all revolve around its inimitable black surface. Professors and TFs--who do not speak the same language--will, in their turn, pick up a piece of chalk and begin to write...