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Then, the committee and CASV members will see whether the new wave of energy to deal with this complex problem fades away as yet another committee report collecting dust or whether the tumult of this year will be the first step towards providing students like Jane with answers...
Concluding the speech with a musical number, Ferrell began to croon Kansas’ blues hit “Dust in the Wind,” which he performed in his most recent film “Old School.” But he broke off mid-song and said, “I’m just realizing its a terrible graduation song. Man, it’s a downer...
...well as a family of white mice. My mother was there too, drawn in to the zoo by a rather inexplicable attraction to a version of my father in dark glasses and hair so huge it doesn’t fit in the yearbook photo that now gathers dust with my baby teeth and first grade poetry. Seen dimly through the warm light of memory, this campus was a crazy, permissive, nearly magical place where a mouse could survive the drop from a fourth-floor Eliot House window and where, if you only squeezed enough honey packets, you could make...
...have outgrown the irony too--otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony Fernandez, taking batting practice, "laying each bunt down like a necktie on a bed." Hopping adroitly from decade to decade, backward and forward, Angell blows the dust off such near forgotten minor marvels as the switch-hitting Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga crushing two home runs in the same inning from opposite sides of the plate, and a game in 1933 (Angell was there) in which one Luke Sewell, catching for the now defunct Washington Senators, tagged...
...thing that will astonish you most about Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" is not that it is a graphic work published by a major trade house (Pantheon, an imprint of Random House). Nor will it be the luxurious quality of the production - a hardcover with a die-cut dust-jacket that lets a character peek through from the cover. Instead, "Persepolis" (153 pp.; $17.95) will zap you with its story. A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality...