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Given the laxity with which these rules are enforced, today's campus activists can march fists raised into any university office, plop themselves down on the floor and start answering questions from waiting reporters. When the hubbub dies down, they can read the books they brought with them--wouldn't want to get behind in school. Perhaps a sympathetic administrator eager to win their approval will even order pizzas and donate blankets...
Wolf Blitzer The man with one emotion (stoicism) and a singular name launched a thousand late-night gags. Now that the war's over, his popularity may evaporate. But as a serious journalist, he's probably better off without the hubbub. Just ask Arthur Kent, the Scud Stud...
They were neither amused nor encouraging. "My mother wanted to protect me from the fabled anguish of the literary life. She said I could be a doctor and write on the side, like Chekhov and William Carlos Williams." No sale. At Amherst College in the hubbub of the counterculture '60s, Turow became more rebellious still. During his freshman year, he and 22 other students marched against Army recruiters on campus; all promptly lost their student draft deferments. Turow eventually received a 1-Y permanent deferment because of a chronic anemic condition...
...hubbub Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) have encountered -- and caused -- on their voyages, the Back to the Future movies have moved along the time-space continuum with easy, free- striding confidence. Maybe Marty and Doc (and the rest of us, looking on) have suffered momentary disorientations. But director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale have always known where they were and, better still, where they were heading...
...high-wire act. Television ads featuring the current issue begin appearing Sunday morning, as the magazine goes to press. So they must be produced as editorial pages are being completed. The solution: a manic production schedule coupling satellite links, chartered trucks, postmidnight meetings -- in short, the general hubbub and commotion on which Lois thrives...