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...Cornell University, an outlandish crew of more than 1850 costumed celebrants competed in the annual Phi Phi 500 a local fraternity's combination of party and charity walk-a-thon. The 1.1 mile course looped through the center of Ithaca starting at and returning to the fraternity's house...
After that, minority recruiters enter another few days of frenzy, engaging in a "Call-a-Thon" to all accepted minority students and planning for a late-April "pre-freshman" minority weekend. For the rest of the staff the respite is briet: interviewing for the Class of 1987 begins...
Even when Harvard's meager offense finds its range, there's usually no one there to witness the event. No more than 40 patrons showed up for the St. Thomas More bomb-a-thon, and at least half were saying nasty things about "Hah-vahd...
...people, these scientists and entertainers and aluminum recyclers and french-fry-buyers and little shriveled kids with iron braces on their feet, maybe they can all solve their own problems, or at least make themselves feel a little better, by pouring all this awesome bake sale-hair-cut-a-thon-door-to-door-backyard-carnival energy into affirming loud and clear on nationwide tube all their values and habits and virtues and petty vices. If only everyone looked like them, and spent their time like them and ate and shopped where they did and listened to their records, then everything...
...deals last night, the Houston Astros picked up a pair of infielders from American League clubs, sacrificing a starting pitcher and an outfielder, Astro Ken Forsch moves to California in exchange for Dickie Thon, while Chris Bourjos, who came to Houston from San Francisco in the Enos Cabell deal earlier this year, was swapped to Baltimore for shortstop Kiko Garcia...