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...first, students were convinced it must be some sort of practical joke. Felix Vater, 17, came out of a classroom to find one his teachers lying in the school hallway. "I felt his pulse and tried to talk to him," says Vater, "but he wasn't there anymore. You know blood from TV, and you just can't believe this is real." Denise Hoffman, 15, thought the three loud bangs she heard meant construction workers had dropped something. "Suddenly out of a room, a masked person appeared," she recalls. "Then he opened the door to another room and shot...
...Georgetown [had raced on Saturday], we would not have even been on the map,” Finelli said. “We’re still two or three lengths slower than them, but it’s not six or seven. It’s not a joke of a race...
...they’re going to marry one of the escorts. I don’t think New York debutantes go into it with that kind of outlook.” Hagan shared a similar experience. “Every now and then I’d crack a joke about how silly it was and people would kind of look at me in a very strange way. That was a little upsetting,” she says...
...despite the fact that his likeness is universally known, the associations it conjures up are rarely those of a serious artist. Even much of Elvis’ residual fan-base has fallen into the trap of celebrating The King as little more than a lurid joke, a historical throwback or a great excuse for an outrageous costume party. If there is one thing this caricature of a man—a man lost in his own world of sex, drugs and blue velvet—seems to have lost, it is his relevance to contemporary music and pop culture...
Advising at this school, like at many others, is a joke made funny only by the fact that most students somehow make it through without any guidance at all. First-year advising is appallingly impersonal, and especially cruel given the fact that such negligence takes place during our first two semesters at the College. Upperclass students, however, have a chance at genuine, personal advising. The houses support a staff of residential tutors that specialize in a number of different academic subjects, and there are enough of them that students can actually receive individual attention. And they are lead...