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...first year here, I finally had some things figured out. The alphabet soup of campus acronyms had finally resolved into an intelligible language. I no longer got lost on my way to the Quad, and I knew exactly which dishes to avoid in Annenberg...
...possibility. Growing up in Silicon Valley—where computer chips tend to garner far more excitement than “impractical” things like poetry—the idea of a place in which people gather round the ashtray Saturday nights to discuss Kafka’s lost manuscripts seemed incredible. Sure, that initial perception may have been laughably idealistic. And yet everything I watched, read, or heard about seemed to bolster it: Columbia-based Jewish literary criticism of the ’40s and ’50s, left-wing magazines like “Partisan Review?...
...Somehow the UC has lost touch with the student body,” said legislation co-sponsor Felix M. Zhang ’11 during last night’s meeting. “Upperclassmen identify with their House...so as the UC, we should be liaisoning with HoCos...
...describe the wickedness of which the Heenes, Richard and Mayumi, now stand accused. Theirs was sleight of hand for the soul: now we see it, now we don't; now we watch in horror and fear for their child's life, a 6-year-old boy, frightened, cold, lost in the clouds; now we learn he was up in the garage attic with snacks, while Mom and Dad auditioned for their 15 minutes of fame...
...dominance, he sounds like he's not facing up to reality - talking about the way things should be in Zimbabwe rather than what they are. Power in the country comes from guns and soldiers, as Mugabe demonstrated when he unleashed his security forces on MDC supporters after his party lost the March 2008 general election, killing scores. (Tsvangirai responded to the violence by first pulling out of the runoff election, and then by accepting in February a junior role in a power-sharing government...