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...face losses whose personal impacts dwarf those that most of us behind the Ivy gates of Harvard ever encounter. At 17—the age at which Alex Arredondo made the fateful decision to join the Marines—my toughest decision was whether or not to play hookey from school. I can’t imagine signing a declaration of my willingness to die for any cause—political views on Iraq aside. At 19, as I ponder my current toughest decisions—whether to take a class with one Nobel laureate or another?...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Deflating the Bubble | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...Friday morning Rice and Straw arrived at a South Asian-?migr? dominated math-tech magnet school, only to be greeted by about 200 anti-war demonstrators, including some 50 students who ?skived? - played hookey - to join the protest. Later in the day, students at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, established by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney in a rambling building where he and George Harrison had attended high school, booed and donned T-shirts that said, "No torture, No compromise." Saturday's planned visit to the Masjide Al-Hidayah mosque in Blackburn was scrubbed, according to the BBC, because some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi Keeps a Stiff Upper Lip | 3/31/2006 | See Source »

...upstage a CEO keynote that includes a live appearance by George Lucas (playing hookey from the script for the next Star Wars movie), an extended solo by guitar demigod Steve Vai, and the public debut of both the Playstation2 and a digital music player barely bigger than a stick of gum? Apparently it's not that hard - if you have an operating system named after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torvalds Holds Forth at Comdex | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...university spent more than twice as much moneyon men's sports as it, did women's during the 1991-92 academic year. The report also indicates other discrepancies between the men's and women's athletic programs at Harvard, ranging from alumni donations to practice time at Bright Hookey Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back: What Happened in 1992-93 | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...Irish Catholic New Yorker, who did all of the typical Irish Catholic things in New York on St. Patrick's Day. My friends and I played hookey from my Catholic, all-girls' high school and went into Manhattan to march in the parade in our black-watch plaid uniform kilts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Confrontation on St. Patrick's Day | 3/31/1992 | See Source »

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