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...have to sit down and read the book like a homework assignment," Snowden said. "But when the play's going 80 miles an hour, it's different from a lot of X's and O's on a sheet of paper...
...works accessible and easily appreciated by all. The first excerpt she quoted opened with this passage from her most famous book, The Women Warrior: "In the midnight unsteadiness we were back at the laundry, and my mother was sitting on an orange crate sorting dirty clothes into mountains -- a sheet mountain, a white shirt mountain, a dark shirt mountain, a workpants mountain, a little hill of socks pinned together in pairs, a little hill of handkerchiefs pinned to tags...
...sign their lists. Remember the dizzying confusion? Remember signing up for the strangest clubs centered around activities you never even knew existed? Remember thinking "we-ell, I guess I might be interested in that, I'm not sure, I never tried...," scribbling your name on a sheet of paper and dashing for the exit of the tent...
...free up nursing mothers for breeding; orangutans will resort to rape if their mating overtures are rebuffed; rival gangs of chimpanzees may wage bloody border wars to protect their turf or enlarge their harems. And the evolutionary big brother of all these creatures, the human male, has a rap sheet that's too long to contemplate...
Class marshals in addition work with the senior Gift co-chairs, who raise money for the class. The information sheet does acknowledge that this task is a voluntary one, yet it seems to me that fundraising is one of the activities most extensively engaged in by Harvard. Just ask the people who work at the Harvard College Fund, an organization which takes up quite a number of spacious floors at 124 Mt. Auburn St. Thus fundraising is the most crucial role of the class marshal--without it, I doubt the position would be as illustrious in the eyes of Harvard...