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...awful as these situations are, they pale in comparison to the dilemma faced by the true student-athletes. Even at powerhouses like Penn State, some members of the football team know that they will not make it to the NFL. Nevertheless, they are part of the program and subsequently must do everything they can to create victories...
...business? Nobody eats that. Plus, I've never seen a Soho soda before I came here." Kidd's confusion is understandable, as Soho sodas come from New York City, making them an odd choice for a meal commemorating the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Kidd's opinions pale in comparison, though, to that of a more vicious Southern student who requested anonymity: "We definitely don't wear the clothes [the dining service workers] wore...
...clams overboiled in sandy water, saw the rickety ghettos along Route 6 and came upon miles of coarse, deserted dunes with harsh twilight sandstorms. It was not my idealization of the Cape. It should have been a place of carefree beauty, of deck shoes and seagulls, of dinghies and pale yellow beach houses...
...hundreds of unhappy and brain-addled Harvard seniors. You can spot them wandering around the campus like shell shocked World War I soldiers, glancing about furtively and occasionally throwing themselves behind some tree or bush after sighting a thesis advisor on the loose in the Yard. They are pale, out of shape, dazed, confused and, having perfected their procrastination techniques, often know a great deal about the minute details of the O.J. Simpson saga. When two get together they will in fact often try to discuss the case, since each of them is involved in research that no-one else...
During his undergraduate years at Columbia, Elkies focused more on research. Wait a minute--Columbia? What made this math whiz choose New York's pale imitation of Harvard? "Poor judgment?" says Elkies, by way of explanation. "I was glad I was able to finish in only three years...