Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From the outset, they've resisted my efforts without good reason," said Merriman, asserting that the masters of Lowell, Winthrop, Eliot, Kirkland, Cabot, Pforzheimer and Currier Houses have taken an irrational "not-in-my-backyard approach...
...especially U.S. dollars--is also portable, storable and exchangeable. (Just ask the thousands of Russian mafiosi who pay for nearly everything with crisp $100 bills.) And it holds up pretty well. If you're afraid of banks, you can still grab a coffee can, dig a hole in the backyard and have a pretty secure deposit. But paper cash does have some awful drawbacks. Lose it and it's gone; sit on it and it may lose its value overnight: think about what just happened in Asia, or earlier in South America...
...might not have a backyard but we can walkout and go somewhere," says Khentov, who thinkscity kids have more of "a life in junior high andearly high school" than suburbanites who must"depend on a car and their parents to leave thehouse...
...mere $5,200 a year, room, board and a built-in community are for the taking. Extra benefits for members include Friday Happy Hours, the yearly lingerie study session in Lamont, and even their own "COOP." A film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone, but the graying wooden structure remains as an amusing testament to a very different and oft-unappreciated type of Harvard life...
...Merriman puts it, "Harvard is not that excited about me digging a hole in the ground." Despite the overwhelming support from some members of Harvard's administration and Merriman's resolution of insurance and safety issues, others in the administration are literally taking a "not in my backyard" attitude. Merriman hopes that her concerns are unnecessary and will soon be allayed, but time grows short...