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...through a mutual friend freshman week and decided to skip the Health and Safety lecture to go out for pizza," Jenny recalls. Meeting around the time of the High Holidays, Jenny and Oliver, both being Jewish, spent a lot of time going to services and eating together at Hillel. Jenny states that "there were definite signals of us liking each other, like we called each other every other day, but I was nervous to consider Oliver a boyfriend because I wanted time at the beginning of freshman year to just figure things out. So, I told everyone who asked that...
From the front row DuBois Professor of theHumanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. followed,asking Goldberg why she thought Beloved"failed at the box office." Goldberg declined apublic debate with Winfrey...
...sitting alone and scribbling notes in front of me or the one peacefully sleeping two seats down? Are you talking and laughing in a group of kids, or did you just skip class today and have another Greenhouse lunch? Are you looking at me right now, guiltily wondering how I reacted to the theft, or are you totally oblivious to me, even though I sat down again in the same place...
...intended to close Willow Run and move production to Arlington, Texas, where it got a better deal. The township countered with a lawsuit, charging that the tax abatements created a binding obligation. A local judge agreed, accusing GM of "having lulled" the people of Ypsilanti and then trying to skip town. The state court of appeals reversed the decision and concluded that "hyperbole and puffery" in seeking tax breaks "does not necessarily create a promise...
...years ago, A.J. Mleczko faced a choice: skip two years of school to train for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics or enter her senior year at Harvard...