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Opening day! In front of the brick dormitory, the dust-streaked family car lurches to a halt with its load of indispensable college supplies: one Sony stereo with headphones, two gooseneck lamps, five pairs of blue jeans, two down parkas (one old, one new), one pair of Rossignol skis ... and one nervous freshman wondering whether anybody will like him. The older students have an easier time of it, needing only to unpack what they left in storage over the summer: more lamps, more blue jeans, boots, bicycles, one unused thesaurus donated by an out-of-date uncle .. . And now, from...
...prepared as any candidate descending on Springfield last May for the state Democratic convention. For her underdog bid to wrest the body's nonbinding endorsement for Secretary of State from incumbent Michael J. Connally, she enlisted a cadre of children to pass out yellow roses and an unusually heavy load of signs, bumper stickers and buttons. They even placed a large scoreboard in the galleries to keep delegates posted on the progress of the Celtics playoff game. Though Sansone's was an uphill fight, the small, red-haired Boston city councilor realized that even a spunky effort in defeat could...
...School announced that the course on race, which had previously been a full-term course, would now be offered as a "minicourse" in the Law School's three-week January session. And it announced that two visiting professors would share the teaching load: J. LeVonne Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the LDF. Chambers is Black, and Greenberg is white...
...know it's not a gut--how's that?" he responds. "That particular criticism may bother me, but there's not much I can do about it. If people perceive a reading load with fewer pieces of literature but where I try to insist on having that read carefully and really mastered, if they perceive that as a gut, fine...
...join his wife in Princeton. He obtained a fellowship at Princeton's Center for Advanced Learning, which allowed him to work on a book at home while caring for his son, Laszlo, age five. Nagy says he was the primary parent for Laszlo, and that his wife, her academic load lightened somewhat, has done more of the work in raising their daughter, Antonia...