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...would say that about half of one percent of the students knew what was going on. They just wanted to go charging and running about. After that experience, I came away with a very jaundiced view of demonstrations. It seemed as if they could be more for the lark of stirring people up then anything else...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Donald P. Hodel '57 | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

...concerned, Harvard doesn’t have much more big city excitement to boast than does Princeton, whose glee club sings that, “Nothing ever happens in Princeton/Of the real world we are in the dark/Policemen here are just for decoration/Blue light phones constructed for a lark...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Mean Streets | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...high school along with many of her friends, "you just have to keep your eye on the ball" - err, rope. And she has. Benton placed third for individual female competitors in last year's world competition. Not bad for a girl who took up jumping rope on a lark after watching a demonstration at a local shopping mall when she was just a little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jump Rope's Big Leap | 1/10/2007 | See Source »

...Americans do.) But in the context of the other numbers, those positions may indicate a libertarian rather than leftist orientation. The Libertarian Party, which advocates minimal government interference in people's lives, has members on 306 campuses, twice the figure of 1997-98, according to James Lark III, a campus organizer and former party chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The Right's New Wing | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...election will be about who can be counted on to move this state forward. Arnold Schwarzenegger is no longer a celebrity - he's a governor with a two-and-a-half-year record. And he'll be judged on that. This is about electing a governor, not about a lark. People will judge him on his record, and see what I offer to hardworking families in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who'll Face Arnold | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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