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...papers. It's easy to tell who ends up alone by accident because they are the ones who stare blankly ahead, waiting for a sympathetic friend to pass. The prepared bring books and study cards. Some of my best thinking was done at the corner tables, where I would ponder my research or think of scholarship essays...
...elected unless you bring home the bacon,'' says McCain. "I don't think that's the way voters feel anymore ... They don't understand why, when we're asking people to make a sacrifice on Medicare, we feel we can afford these other kinds of extravagant spending.'' As voters ponder that double standard, they might wonder whether those who vowed to change the ways of Washington have already been taken...
TEODORA MARIN, 21, ARRIVED LAST week at the sprawling County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles in no mood to ponder the fine points of municipal finance. Earlier in the day, she had discovered several soft lumps on the neck of her son Jesus. Jesus had been born at County-USC, premature and sickly; the doctors had told Teodora, a recent Mexican immigrant, that she must bring him back if unusual symptoms developed. Back to County-USC, that is: without money or insurance, none of the area's private clinics will see her. As a nurse inspected...
...ranked their choices from highest to lowest before meeting the fate of a computer. And now gone this year is the latest compromise system of "non-ordered choice," where each student was almost guaranteed one of his or her top four choices (though in no particular order). As we ponder the succession of Five-Year Plans(More or less), we might wonder with some astonishment whether Harvard is on the same track as another famous bureaucracy of this century: the Soviet Union...
Luckily, Klienfelder has half a year to ponder such things. But the ponder she must, because in the eyes of any Harvard women's lacrosse, player finishing 8-5 was shocking disappointment. Now, instead of fighting to remain king of the hill, the Crimson must work its way back...