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...number of students and received a variety of responses. Some of the more common: copies of this newspaper, ID cards, a blue book, a portrait of the University president (or, alternatively, a self-portrait, labeled "University president"), the Users Guide to the Ad Board, a shuttle schedule, a lock of hair (shellacked or otherwise) and at least half a dozen objects alluding to how much Yale sucks...
...Similarly, an eclectic mix of cheery students and weary proletarians converge. They brush against one another in dank corridors, share impatient waits for lazy trains and lock in forced, anonymous embrace on packed cars...
...drink too much beer. Working as a security guard is more about fielding random queries than cracking down on crime. "Yeah, I get a lot of crazy requests," Billy remarks, "like the students who say, 'I know it's wrong, but could you do this?' The people who lock their clothes in somebody else's room, and then ask me to let them in. I tell them that I can't go into somebody's room, because for me, that's breaking and entering. If you have his permission that's one thing. Otherwise, I say I'm sorry...
...celebration was as choreographed as the first act of Cats, the zip and pop of a truly great moment was missing. Ordinary citizens weren't glued to their television sets. And the triumphal speech to his fellow Chinese--the grand gesture or unforgettable sound bite that would lock in the historic moment--never occurred. But such policy blahs don't mean that Jiang won't one day pull off that kind of Maoist dazzle, for he's clearly driven by an ambition to be as imperial as he can be. They're just a sign that in rapidly changing China...
...Lock dumpsters to inhibit unauthorized dumpers...