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...single square inch of the gym is wasted," said Senior Property Development Officer George Oommen. "There is a logic...
There is, for example, the decrepit state of Hemenway Gym. These protesters are not just a group of anti-administration renegades; they have a cause: they want their squash courts cleaned up. Yes, we've stooped that low. Our generation will honestly protest the sorry state of its squash courts...
...fund devoted to sponsoring scholarships for minorities. If they wanted to attack investments in South Africa, they would set up a fund similar to the Endowment for Divestiture. And if they wanted to clean up their squash courts, they'd do what every good alumnus does--donate a new gym...
Stuck with the prospect of being part of the system, they are vainly attempting to disassociate themselves from it. They are just plain unhappy--about apartheid, about gym maintenance and about their inevitable job on Wall Street. What's important to notice is the apparent equivalence all these complaints share. In a cynical world, all evils are equally important because everything is equally irrelevant. It's all the same, and they want us to know...
...knew then what I know now," she muses, "I'd do a lot of things differently." Will she, though, when she gets the dream of a chance? Crowned the reunion queen, she grows woozy and faints. When she awakes, she is lying on a cot in the same gym, and it is 1960. Her old friends are her young friends now; her husband is a nice, gawky kid. And she is a 42-year-old woman, with all her experiences and frustrations, trapped in the body of a 17-year-old girl. Peggy Sue got time- warped...