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...sitting on the dashboard, almost entirely obstructing the driver's view of traffic. As one driver candidly remarked, "students cram in just about everywhere except my lap." Indeed, the Mather-Science Center shuttle was so crowded last Monday morning that the driver had to rely on students near the window to tell him when traffic was clear--a fact that was particularly disturbing in light of the perilous road conditions caused by the previous night's snow storm. Sudden stops send students stumbling, but such stops could easily send students through the windshield as well...
Philosophy student Aaron J. James, who will be an assistant professor at the University of California at Irvine next year, says that job interviewers prefer applicants who finish their dissertations within a specific window...
...father John, a carpenter and cabinetmaker and railway mail clerk, is taking his leave of this world in a bedroom that was mine when I was 18. I lay where he is lying now, in the northeast corner of the room, and looked out the window at night to a red blinking light on a distant water tower and imagined living in New York City and other grand things, and now at 87 he lies in the bed and imagines the risen Christ meeting him with open arms, as in the hymns that his morning nurse Ramona sings...
Call me old-fashioned, but I've never been seduced by the charms of electronic organizers. I know that everyone these days--from schoolkids to go-go executives--is packing a Palm, a Visor or a PocketPC. I know the devices now come in more colors than a Benetton window display. And I know that I could use a little more order in my life. But as long as they cost $300 (on average) and weighed in at half a pound, personal digital assistants, as they're called, always seemed too expensive and too heavy...
...Some years ago, in a famous early case illustrating the stupidities of political correctness, a student at the University of Pennsylvania got himself into trouble, charged with racist hate speech, when he shouted out the dorm window at a group of black female students who were making noise late at night: "Shut up, you water buffalo...