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Regardless of respect, a Harvard diploma can only do so much in coaxing the right people to crack the right doors ajar. The whole game of it all reminds me of those large, long hallways from the dream sequences of a movie, labyrinthine but somehow also very simple at the same time. There are lots of opened doors, but the views inside are blurry, and the view back out may be non-existent. Just as we may find it hard to remember our lives before Harvard, after we enter the working world it may be hard to recall a time...
Whether or not Harvard expects to hold onto its three-year perch atop the Ivy standings next season, the league's also-rans will indubitably view Feaster's departure as an open door, and one that has not been so ajar in at least three seasons...
...Victorian heaven. Here was the humanistic heaven with a vengeance, calmly convinced of its own literal truth but with a spiritual core seemingly provided by House & Garden. Its strongest proponents were not clergy but a new breed of popular novelists like Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, whose 1868 The Gates Ajar, set in heaven, was a runaway best seller through the end of the century. Wrote Phelps of one celestial interlude: "We stopped before a small and quiet house built of curiously inlaid woods...So exquisite was the carving and coloring, that on a larger scale the effect might have interfered with...
According to a flyer on dorm security distributed by HUPD, 99 percent of thefts from students' rooms are caused by leaving the suite door opened, ajar, or unlocked...
...quickly waved inside by Bill Clinton's longtime doorkeeper, Nancy Hernreich. But the inner sanctum was empty. "Where's the President?" asked McLarty, a senior adviser. "What do you mean?" Hernreich responded with alarm. Before the two could panic, McLarty noticed the French door near Clinton's desk was ajar. Picking up the trail, he went outside. There on the South Lawn, about 30 yds. from the Oval Office, the President of the United States was standing in shirt-sleeves and tie, his hands gripping the shaft of a putter, his eyes fixed on a small white ball...