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Students had varying reactions to Columbus Day, ranging from the slightly bored to the intellectually opposed. Most said they regarded it as nothing more than an opportunity to get out of classes...
Some students got out of Harvard as well. "A lot of people went home because of Columbus Duy," Carl F. Engstron '98 said. "The campus seemed emptier...
...this apparently did not reflect a general desire to mull over Columbus' activities at home, if students surveyed yesterday are any indication. A common response to the question, "What is the significance of Columbus Day to you?" was the facetious "Columbus? Columbus...
...verbal pace slows to a crawl when describing details of his first marriage and its dissolution. (He has since remarried.) "I don't talk about it much," he told TIME. "I met my ex-wife when she was my high school math teacher . . . at Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia." Married after his freshman year at Emory University, he says what he calls the "random accident" of their getting together "seemed to make sense at the time. I can't look back badly, from the standpoint that I have two wonderful daughters whom I am very close to and adore...
...Normally we aim for Columbus Day weekend for startup, but sometimes weather conditions say when we start," said Andrew J. Culhane, building operations supervisor...