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...almost midnight back in Weld 52. The scene is chaotic once again as Norberg stresses to finish a 10-page Expos paper, the room covered in papers, highlighters, and MLA style books.Slouching in his chair, dejected, Norberg is surrounded by his roommates. They gather around him, peering at the haphazard words on his computer screen.“Now I’m from South Carolina,” Scott says. “Our public education system isn’t top of the charts. I know it’s a game for you to put funny words...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In a class of their own | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...many plots in Next (and doesn't that title belong to Michael Lewis?) are linked together by a collection of coincidences so haphazard and unbelievable that it's almost shocking to read them under the byline of a novelist as seasoned as Crichton. It's possible he is trying something new here, that he deliberately opted out of his usual central driving plot to present us instead with a panoramic Babel-style view of a whole society gone genetically mad, I tell you, mad. If so, the experiment, like so many he describes, has gone disastrously wrong. This kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bring Back the T. Rex | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

Ryan’s success is by no means haphazard; he has an exceptional ability to inspire those working with him to collaborate and give their all to a project. Ryan’s mantra seems quite simple to us: people matter. Ryan is the kind of person who makes certain that everyone he works with knows how valuable and appreciated their contributions are. Whether you find him in a dining hall late at night (on his second or third Brain Break run) or on his way to a breakfast meeting long before classes begin, he always stops...

Author: By Nworah B. Ayogu, Eric P. Lesser, and Annie R. Riley | Title: Petersen and Sundquist: Experience Fighting for Students | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Commercial activity in most of New Delhi's residential areas is forbidden, but the restrictions have been ignored for decades as the city struggled to accommodate an exploding population. In recent years, however, civic groups fed up with haphazard development petitioned the Supreme Court to enforce the law-and won. But the clean-up campaign could inconvenience customers, disrupt neighborhoods, and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. One of them is Vijay Sehgal, 47, proprietor of a wristwatch shop that is slated to be closed. "I don't know what I'm going to do," says Sehgal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inconvenience Stores | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...like to believe that the government—along with New Jersey-based (!) PR agency MWW Group—strategically planned their efforts to recruit a member of The Crimson’s staff for the sake of Scotland, the lack of systematization to their efforts left them seemingly haphazard...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Small But Special | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

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