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...Boston area. The stakes are especially high for undergraduates. During the course of Allston development, undergraduate housing in the Quad is expected to be transferred to the Allston side of the Charles River, opposite the existing Cambridge River Houses. Although this move will finally remove the distance barrier that has divided the undergraduate community for decades, such an advantage would essentially be reversed if undergraduates had to cross a major parkway each time they wanted to visit Winthrop House or Widener Library. The benefits of a buried parkway would be enjoyed by all local residents, not just those...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Bury the Parkway | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...that shower scene, literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone who thinks that is funny.") Altman continued to be pursued by this reputation as a prankster on all humanity, depantsing people of their pretenses and setting up an impregnable barrier between the hip and the square. And, as it happened, he earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Robert Altman | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...deal they were offered—that is, to do what they were told and get filmed doing it. If their claims are true—they have yet to be denied—at no point during the filming process was any effort made to overcome the language barrier and explain what was going...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: The Glod-Slinging Begins | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...went to Egypt this summer to learn how to speak Arabic. What I learned instead was how to cover up, to be invisible, to preserve my “moral reputation.”All I wanted was to learn the language that would let me break through the barrier that separated me from my grandparents and extended family. But I quickly discovered that the streets of Cairo had other lessons to offer, whether or not I was willing to learn them.In the Egyptian capital, a wardrobe malfunction is not an accident—it?...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Why I Won’t Veil | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...communication barrier is what’s preventing lots of Latinos from different communities from exercising the political clout commensurate with their numbers,” said Dems Political Director Raquel O. Alvarenga ’07, who is the first person in her immigrant family from El Salvador born...

Author: By Yifei Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Dial Up Latino Voters | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

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