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Each bookseller has a unique and genuine affection for the books that they’re selling; and if that makes them a bit odd, it also makes them great to sit down and talk with...
...this world where all of us sit at our computers and watch silly YouTube clips, what about watching stuff that happens at our school done by people that we know?” he said. “Never have the UC presidential candidates been shown in this...
...mph.These shortcomings aside, traveling by train, even in the United States, is simply a cut above other forms of transportation.While planes uncomfortably crowd people against one another, forcing them to retreat into themselves, trains allow for a certain sense of Olympian detachment combined with carefree interaction.So as my friends sit on the tarmac at Logan or O’Hare on the way home to winter break, I’ll be ensconced comfortably—and, most likely, grinning like a fool—aboard my train. They will likely get to their destinations before...
...month later, President John F. Kennedy ’40, the country’s greatest symbol of youth, energy, and progress, was assassinated. The boldest politically minded students embarked on the sorts of adventures still cited today; the group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) sparked University Hall sit-ins disrupted by police force in 1968 and mobbed by the hundreds visiting then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in 1967 to demand answers about the Vietnam War. But by the year of their graduation, their inability to effect real social and political change had somewhat exhausted...
...Honestly, having minority representation at the graduate level is a great thing,” said Kyle M. Brown, the president of the Graduate Student Council, who is studying molecular and cellular biology. “Liberal arts education was traditionally for those with enough money to sit around and think about things, and this is a big change, forcing us to come down from the ‘Ivory Tower...