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...fares have encouraged people to take excursions they would not have thought about in the past: a weekend jaunt to Florida, a crosscountry journey to a grandchild's graduation or a day trip to one of State U.'s road games. Buddy Yorke, a construction worker in Flagler Beach, Fla., has since August made four trips on People from Jacksonville to Newark to visit friends in nearby Roselle, N.J., where he grew up. Each time, he then flew from Newark to Buffalo on People to visit his girlfriend. Says Yorke: "I wasn't an avid traveler...
...scrim, it juxtaposes lyrical nudity and erotic mania, chivalrous honor and military obsession. Some of the images may be dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots on his hands, gracefully mimes both partners in an act of love; the soldiers who maintain a drumming kick step even when facedown...
Sure, early-morning studiers might not be common; but they exist. Opening at 3 p.m. is not fair to students wanting to use library resources in the morning, and it is not fair of the administration to tell these students that they must make the jaunt down to the Yard. They should be able to use resources near their home. Closed on Saturday? Rarely does one find a Harvard student who doesn’t do work on the weekend. HCL must keep Hilles open on Saturday...
...been planned quite as meticulously as this one. Three sources who worked with Abramoff at the time say the majority whip's office ran one of Abramoff's assistants ragged with its constantly changing requests. Indeed, say two of those sources, the whole idea for the expensive London jaunt originated with DeLay aides as an additional stop on a golf outing that Abramoff had proposed to Scotland's famous St. Andrews course...
...registration goes online, eliminating the traditional jaunt to Sever Hall to sign in, administrators fear that the student activities fair, traditionally held in Tercentenary Theatre, will see a drop in turnout...