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...According to 8 Garden Street, the ranks of applicants this year swelled to over 20,000—that’s more than the total of Anglo and allied forces who gave their lives to defend civilization in the Battle of Waterloo. These young ones are eager to enlist, but are they prepared to join us in fighting for the common cause of students, faculty and administrators alike: defending the innocence and emptiness of our speech? We guard the border between ourselves and meaning with think-tanks from which we fire blanks wildly at will...
...thing to slip past the Army's rules. It was something else to get past Anna. "I fought him all the way about re-enlisting," she says, as she sits on the couch rocking the baby, watching CNN. "Sometimes I get so mad at him," she says. "Why did he have to volunteer for this?" Then she looks at him and answers her own question. "He's a really good man, and it means so much to him." When he was seeking to re-enlist, the Army offered more options than the Marines, especially to an older soldier...
...advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar activists spread the word and enlist recruits through the websites and e-mail lists launched during the anti-globalization movement of the late '90s. "The dialogue is happening at a much faster pace than in the past," she says. "There's so much happening against the war, I could attend events every day of the week...
...there was like a huge fucking Harvard-Yale sex orgy last time he went to New Haven. He also said Yale girls are super-hot, and really impressed by Harvard guys. I’m definitely gonna score!” When confronted about his prevarications, Seaver tried to enlist his resident tutor in a pantsless trip to the vending machine...
Ricketts encouraged students present to consider working for the organization. PBHA has recently experienced a shortage of volunteers, and has been making increased efforts to enlist students in its various service programs...