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Around 9 p.m., Adams house residents were told by e-mail and word-of-mouth to exit the building immediately, and to go either spend the night in a friend's room or in suites that unaffected Quincy House had opened for blackout refugees...
...message to evacuate Yard buildings traveled quickly, and word spread that freshmen should gather for a meeting in the Science Center. But it wasn't until 12:20 a.m. that Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds told freshmen that cots were set up the Malkin Athletic Center for those who needed it, and that the Science Center could act as a makeshift shelter for "as few of you as possible...
...Your 765-word plea for tuition help notes that your mother is handicapped and your father has three jobs. Do you worry your e-mail looks like a scam? I definitely see why people might think it's a scam. They can check it out; they can call NYU's financial-aid office if they want ... I was trying to make it seem as unscam-like as possible. Which is kind of difficult when you're asking for money...
...years, he is keeping a spreadsheet with contact information for all of the donors who did not send money anonymously. Among them is Chris Sperry, a sponsorship manager in Atlanta who put $5 in the mail for Stephenson even though the two of them have never exchanged a single word. Like other donors, Sperry says he wants Stephenson to have an easier time paying for school than he did. "It's a shame that you get saddled with [loans] right out the gate," Sperry says, recalling that during his own years as an undergraduate, he worked three jobs to offset...
...pretentions and presumptions. "This is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate," she said. "This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word victory except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan...