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...hand, he donates money for college scholarships, organizes massive registration drives among his employees, endows university chairs and sends out a newsletter to senior citizens that features everything from pending state legislation to muffin recipes. On the other hand, Wynn continues to make headlines for investigations into the possible organized-crime connections of some of his top employees. Just last week he appeared before the Nevada Gaming Commission to defend his father's bookmaker, Charles Meyerson, whom Steve hired 13 years ago as a host for Atlantic City's Golden Nugget and who is paid $400,000 a year today...
Somehow, Veritas now means much more to me than a design associated with my morning cup of orange juice, my muffin-containing napkin and an imposing iron gate. An elite university should serve as more than a mere playground for the mind--it should forward the pursuit of truth. Without the shared assumptions that constitute the truth at any given point in human history, assumptions about the nature of common human experience, we are each reduced to an isolated clump of matter, Lacking any basis for communicatio with others. Muhammad's call for a new look at learning...
...look like flower. It's not just the issue of bruised eyes and a grassy verge of a mouth. A black, suppurating tumour may cascade from my forehead; my eyes could have multiplied; little horns might peep up through my rug; my nose could be replaced by a bluebery muffin. The final encounter with the mirror have never proved as bad. But the fear lives on--especially on Sunday mornings...
Blueberry muffin...
...everyday quality of life in the Yard has a different feel to it, too. Computers and fax machines have woven themselves into the fabric of student life. The Mug 'n Muffin and other Harvard Square hangouts are gone, forced out by yuppification and high rents. The 18-year-old drinking age is a thing of the past; Harvard On-Line Information System (HOLLIS) and bar-coded books have come to the libraries. Student dining halls are equipped with microwave ovens...