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...come in here almost every day to cruise the Net," says Clifford Granthier, 20. The young Haitian immigrant was among those who used to spend all day on the makeshift basketball court outside the reading room. But as word trickled out that you could find cool pictures of Michael Jordan and the Bulls on the Web, Granthier began spending more and more of his day in cyberspace. His circumnavigations led him to a new interest: desktop publishing. "I'm inspired to start my own business," he says...
...makeshift waiting center set up in the auditorium of Grady Memorial Hospital, a mile from the park, shaken relatives and friends of victims gathered in search of information about their loved ones. From time to time, a Red Cross nurse would appear and read out names written in blue ballpoint pen on her rubber gloves. Much of her news was reasonably good: most patients had only minor injuries. Meanwhile, those waiting traded stories about the night. "It didn't seem like a real bomb to me," said John, a young British man who was crying as he waited for news...
...members took place on Thursday night in the school gym, 2,100 weary souls, a little less than half the town, showed up and wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker, the Rev. Jerry Uppling, began his invocation with Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
...staff goes awry when it attempts to turn this ban into some grand, insensitive swipe at religious freedom rather than an understandable--if ineffective--precaution. Menorahs are dangerous. There were two incidents last semester in which makeshift menorahs started fires, and there is usually at least one such incident each year. Even a small fire can set off the sprinklers and cause tens of thousands of dollars of water damage; a large fire can be tragic. The staff writes that we should be treated as adults. As much as I enjoy autonomy, I don't feel like dying because...
...evil, and as examples of such genuine, integrity-destroying evil, he offers racism and genocide. Thus the Nazi operative couldn't be a man of integrity, no matter how much "discerning" he engages in, because genocide is just, well, over the top. But evil, in Integrity, seems a pretty makeshift deus ex machina. If, for example, racism is such a self-evident no-no, then why not sexism--including any attempt to restrict women's reproductive choices? Or, a pro-lifer could argue, if genocide is evil, then why not abortion? This is where the handshakes end and the howitzers...