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...front of every Harvard University shuttle bus there is a thin white line, clearly demarcating a point behind which all passengers must stand before the bus can safely depart. During off-peak hours the line is noticeable, even authoritative. Sharply contrasting with the black enameled floor of the rest of the bus, the line is hard to miss. However, if you frequent Harvard's shuttle buses only during peak hours, it would not be unusual if you hadn't noticed the line, regularly obscured by the feet of students standing on or past it, bodies tightly pressed against one another...
...actions that need to be taken are simple, but the consequences are high. Student safety is imperiled, teetering perilously on a thin white line...
...other highflyers and lowlifes was getting a little spooky. It was time to tap on the lid of the trunk and see if Houdini was still alive in there. Now he got help from the Old Guard, the magician's assistants who had stuck by him through thick and thin and thick. Here came faithful fund raiser Beth Dozoretz, who we learn was cleared by the Secret Service to visit the White House 76 times in the past two years, declining to tell the congressional investigators whether her fund-raising efforts for the Clinton library had anything to do with...
...committee is still not sold. Though Susan intends to study literature, dean of admissions Diane Anci is worried because her transcript is "thin" in science credits and notes that she has progressed in math no further than pre-calculus. "Let's have a dramatic reading from her essay," says Anci. Susan's meditation on the ferryboats she rides across Puget Sound each morning to her Seattle school elicits approving chuckles from the jury. Anci is convinced. Moments later, the committee votes to rate Susan a 3 on a descending scale of 1 to 9--high enough to earn...
...Many colleagues seem to be quite overworked--we're simply spread too thin," she said...