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On the road, there are rules that drivers learn to follow. For example, the four lanes of the freeway fall into categories: very slow, slow, fast and very fast. The speed limit simply serves as a medium for drivers of every kind.

Somewhere there is a street where children sing as high as the number 12 as a pinball moves to the rhythm of the music; a street where animal puppets and humans have things in common; a street where letters and numbers are themes for the day and people celebrate learning as a way of life.

As a freshman living in Stu-Han, I had big dreams of moving to the Oaks. It was an American (college student) dream: A co-ed residence hall with micro­waves and refrigerators on every floor. Carpet. Cable hook-ups.

It starts when we are children. We take a box of 64 crayons and separate them by color.

In the movie “Reality Bites,” a college slacker loses his mediocre job at a newsstand after stealing a Snickers candy bar. He reasoned that the “establishment” owed him the candy.

The U.S. Postal Service has some explaining to do. After all, they are about to give the Madonna and Child stamp the boot, claiming it is too religious.