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...outdoor hangout. And in this otherwise empty dormitory, a lone television set is playing. The TV, visible through a window, glows on, always tuned to the same channel, day and night. "After the second murder, they evacuated the building," says one of the students through an interpreter. "And they forgot to turn it off. Kind of eerie...
...college life are for me made up of little moments, some around seminar tables and others with friends over beer, and still others like that one on the paths in front of Harvard Hall when I introduced myself to one of the leading men in America. I never forgot it and in time I came to understand it better. This is what the president is, a cloud drifting through meetings and appearances in order to fight for this place that has been my home. A new installment is on the way, and to him I wish a happy new year...
...note marred by daydreaming and every congratulation on a thesis well done, they cannot capture what is gone. Where is the first snowfall, the first beer, the first love, lost? Where is the last class, the best friend, the last snack stolen from the dining hall? Nothing remains; we forgot to take pictures and now we find memories must suffice, fade as they may. The picture lies, anyway; must hides behind the edges, as deadlines loomed and worries, foolish now, haunt its shadows. At best, pictures can serve as talismans, as the hidden corners are painted in the warm light...
...Tanaka's fatal error, which is starting to show, is that he thought public adoration was enough. He forgot that he has to make use of that popularity to bring the recalcitrant bureaucrats on board and to convince his legislative opponents that they'd be fools to stand in the way of a popular Governor. In March, lawmakers brutally destroyed his plan to stop construction of the Shimosuwa dam. There wasn't a thing Tanaka could do about it but grouse. "The general contractors and construction companies think that more highways and bridges will bring on prosperity and recovery...
...anxiety passed, and Femmy didn't see a doctor. She forgot her worries until a few days later when Marseline, her eldest daughter, came home chattering about some scientists who had visited her school. The 10-year-old showed her a brochure they had handed out?and Femmy's world turned to ashes. Pregnant women were the most vulnerable to mercury poisoning, she read. They must avoid all contact with the substance or their babies could be born horribly deformed...