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...would have all liked to have done a lot more interacting with the various parts of the University, but there is a time limit,” Houghton says. “This place is immense, and it strains the normal interactions because there’s so much...
...much more of an observer than a partaker, but she didn’t remove herself from the normal undergraduate life,” Juhon said. “She was just always really dignified—even the way she dressed was very proper. I never saw her really cut loose. I don’t think that...
...news of his fraudulent activities came as a particular shock to the Caesar Rodney High School community due to the seeming disparity between Adam Wheeler the alleged criminal and the Adam Wheeler who quietly attended the school as a normal, but bright, student...
...tomorrow’s meeting. The responses come uniformly back: “Thanks!!!” You have to wonder: is the responder really as excited about answering as they sound? In any case, ending ordinary e-mail or text message correspondences in this manner has become increasingly normal. However, it illustrates a dangerous trend in punctuation: the overuse of the exclamation point. Although the more frequent use of this point may appear to just be a better representation of our own exuberance, the consequences of this trend include misrepresentations of our meanings and emotions...
...some moments of brilliance, and moments when any normal team would have thought it was fine, but our team knew we could do better than we did,” Smith said. “[Overall it was] a very strong weekend and season that will hopefully build for something better next season...