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...However, one must note, Thairu is probably insane. His charming and jocular manner undoubtedly hides horrible pain inflicted by various disciplinarians. Pain that he discusses with seeming indifference. He was only whipped once during high school, though he admitted, laughing in the way Americans reserve for fond reminiscence of misbehavior, that he "can't count the number of strokes" he took during primary school...
...coming out of 3 Little Pigs Barbecue and nearly turned into a delivery entrance at Bob Jones University. Bush, the compassionate conservative who wants to bring the whole world into the Republican Party, opened his South Carolina campaign at the school, which bans interracial dating and isn't terribly fond of Catholicism. A guy named Lopez who served briefly as an altar boy is probably safer in the hillbilly nation...
...COOP threatens to oust Dunkin' Donuts, it's really just The Man fighting The Man. Consequently, it's difficult for thoughtful social justice types and compassionate conservatives to determine whether or not defending the lesser of the two evils is justified. Right-thinking leftists and conservatives alike are fond of well-established stores, but suspicious of soulless chains...
Bossert says he also has fond memories of certain sleeping students...
...classes and student groups constituted the whole of the Harvard experience, we'd all complain a little less and sleep a lot more. But Harvard students, not unlike other college students, lead complicated lives. As Lewis is fond of saying, students can build these lives around both College institutions as well around personal relationships that have nothing to do with Harvard. Consequently, Lewis argues, the College's role in student life should be to support "localized efforts based around residential or extracurricular life...