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...Somehow, and I know not how, I was given the impression that Alec Guinness had died years ago. I transmitted this misinformation to my trusting comrades, who in turn transmitted it to their comrades. In short, I am responsible for an entire community of people who are convinced that Alec Guinness, who is presently alive and well and living in a London suburb, actually bit it back in the late '80s. Obi-Wan Kenobi's dialogue with Luke in that memorable scene from Star Wars, as a result, had its unlikely effect on me: "Oh, he's not dead...
...have two concerns with the new program, however. First, gays may come to serve merely as symbols for the department. That is, if sexual orientation becomes a determining factor in the recruitment of officers, new gay officers could well become "tokens," somehow proving that the Cambridge Police Department is friendly to gays. But simply having gays on staff does not mean that everything is o.k. In order for gays to feel comfortable in any police department, we feel that a genuine desire to accept the queer community must be felt, the proof of which only time will determine...
...last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there will be an unprecedented sale shelf or that maybe I misread that the price of my flimsy paperback textbook is more than $50. I have an irrational expectation that somehow by making numerous visits to the Coop, the grand total of the cost of my books will be less than the cost if I'd just bought them all at one fell swoop. Needless to say my technique is neither wise nor efficient and my only release is to complain...
...percent. This seems a little on the steep side, but we can't protest to our neighborhood Coop. The price mark-up is set by Barnes & Nobles, which bought the Coop and now, hand-in-hand with Starbucks, is well on its way to taking over the world. Somehow such a vast corporation seems too formidable to confront about my sourcebook price. So, placated by the copyright law, I let the sourcebook question rest...
What is being done for (or perhaps to) today's unconventional children? Those who don't fit into standard or acceptable modes of teacher-student or parent-child interaction are still obliged to function within those structures, somehow, someway. We all know kids who fit the mold of not fitting the mold. We volunteer with them, we babysit them, and perhaps at one point we were even one of them...