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...from a logistical standpoint. Their administrative workload could easily be shuffled onto teaching fellows, who normally make themselves available during exams anyway. A Ph.D. candidate in the GSAS is entirely capable of reading instructions, telling undergrads to sit in every other seat, and giving permission for students to go wee wee during the test. And the presence of a TF is just as effective in deterring any would be cheaters...
...contrast to the other two U.C. standing committees--Student Affairs and Campus Life--the Finance Committee meets in a small room in the basement of Canaday Hall, usually into the wee hours of the morning. And although, to my knowledge, none of the current committee members are smokers, the committee has often been likened to the "smoke-filled back rooms" of political infamy...
Lurking behind this is the shadow festival. Here the conversation only rarely strays to the films that the movie folk have ostensibly come to see; instead, it's the same talk that goes on year-round in Hollywood, transplanted and intensified and extended into the wee hours. The shadow festival is a curious mix of collegiate revelry and Sammy Glick desperation. For participants, it's a chance to make a year's worth of contacts in a few sleep- deprived nights. For outsiders, it's a zoological treasure trove, a place where all the major species of Hollywood schmoozemeister...
...must be pretty easy to be a conservative. I should know; I used to be one. Back in the mid-eighties, when I was a wee bairn of thirteen, President Ronald Reagan was one of my greatest heroes. He forced this great country back to the ideals I held dear: humility, selflessness, obedience. I blamed the hostage crisis on Carter; I nearly wept when he lit the Statue of Liberty's torch on the Fourth of July; I called the news media a bunch of bleeding hearts for belaboring that overblown Iran-Contra thing. When other kids wore black armbands...
...Ducks"--a simplification of the military acronym DUWK--are military vehicles that wee built from 1943 to 1945. For the past 30 years, they have been used in locations across the country as tourist vehicles...