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...requested and received a pile of glossy recruiting brochures from the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines. (The Marines even included "Semper Fi" and "Marines" bumper stickers with their packet. Pretty classy...
Imagine their surprise when in the College's orientation packet, they receive a student publication, conservative magazine Peninsula, that called their sexual orientation a "bad alternative...
While I was having a stroke, the man from the Registrar's Office explained that "there was a list of all the times and places in your registration packet. You probably just missed it." I knew I hadn't missed it because I am the sort of anal-retentive person who goes through everything in her registration packet and even reads the drug and alcohol policy before signing...
...kept saying, "It was in your packet," and we continued in this kindergarten manner for a while before he decided to check some list. (I heard paper rustling.) My name was on the list, he announced smugly. Therefore I had received it. I asked if it were possible that the omnipotent Registrar's Office, long may it spew red tape, had actually made a mistake? (That's not exactly what I said, but I wish I had.) He then retreated to his second line of defense. It didn't matter anyway since it was my responsibility to find out these...
...Mayo; both parents were doctors. Mary's grandfather, a retired lawyer, took her under his wing, describing his old cases and telling her how the law should be an instrument for social change and the protection of individuals. "Often he'd be in the process of opening a new packet of books that he'd ordered by mail. His communication was short and pithy, and often I would do a lot of the talking...