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...getting quoted about how much their source-books cost that they don't bother to show up for class at all. After a while we come to know a lot about them, certainly more than they know about us. We talk about them, admire them, think about them at random moments. But if we should ever see them conjured up in flesh and blood, crossing paths with us as we walk through the Yard, we wouldn't even dream of stopping them to say hello, because to us, they aren't real people--they only exist on paper...
During the first week of the semester, when class schedules readjust and student organizations choose new leaders, some of our "extras" might change. But chances are good that our old friends--the Unit Test Grader, The Crimson's Reader Representative, the Gilbert & Sullivan Girl, the Random Law Student--will still be around. (They usually are.) The next time you see your "extras," pay them their due. Don't say hello, of course, since that would be way too direct. Instead, throw a glance at them, raise your eyebrows and wink. If they don't read the newspaper, they'll just...
...more offhand and random the brutality of the Serb rulers, the stronger the support for the emerging nationalist K.L.A. The Vojnik uprising looks like the start of a bloody, protracted guerrilla war that could spill over into the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where 350 American troops are stationed and where ethnic Albanians also seek independence...
...credits her parents with the drive and self-confidence that took her through college at Howard University, an M.A. from Cornell, a teaching post at Howard and editing jobs that eventually landed her in Manhattan. Jason Epstein, now a Random House vice president and executive editor, was Morrison's boss in those days, and he has remained a friend ever since. "She was a wonderful colleague," he says, "always bright and apt and funny. I used to love to go sit in her office, just for the pleasure of it; it was full of plants, I remember. It was clear...
This romantic desire quickly runs up against problems because there is no dating scene at Harvard, end of story. Students here seem to: 1) pair off with someone and become a married couple early on, 2) spend their undergraduate years engaging in random hook-ups, or 3) simply live the celibate life. If students choose the third option, that's four years of celibacy. Who applied to Harvard in the hopes of training for a convent...