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Sure, you can send mail to Stanford. But remember, Stanford is in a different time zone, so you have to amplify stuff for your pen-pal by writing clarifications like "Last night I went to dinner at a keen restaurant (that's late afternoon, your time), blah blah blah" and avoid all references to earthquakes...
...Department of Justice, which has a keen sense of law-and-order, smokers now retreat to the photocopying rooms in order to relax with a soothing cigarette. And how does that affect working conditions? "We don't do any work here anyway," cracks one bureaucrat. At the Department of Transportation, where things are supposed to move, smokers can puff away in half the rest rooms and corridors, but at the State Department, which has never been known for hasty decision making, nobody is quite sure where you can do it. "The air hasn't circulated in here in 20 years...
...think most freshmen are not fully cognizant of the pass/fail option, as are upperclassmen. Most people who apply have an interest in the material already and are not too keen on making a bad impression," Moore said. "Freshmen looking for an easy course are not usually going to go through the hassle of applying. That's why I didn't apply...
Stanley, the top-ranked amateur player, was playing number two because he lost a challenge match to his teammate Keen Butcher...
...most interesting match will come when the nation's number-two collegiate squash player, Princeton's Keen Butcher, squares off against Pandole, currently ranked third in the country...