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...expected to move rapidly into the double digits, I'm looking for a fallback plan - a way to generate cash fast until the new prez gets us out of this mess. So here's what I'm thinking, and please do not tell my wife: I'm turning my basement into a full-service karaoke...
...year-long construction period where that plan is carried out strictly.” Many on the trip also said they were impressed by the institutions’ more efficient use of residential space following their renovations. “Yale has really taken advantage of their basement spaces in all their houses by building multimedia rooms, theatres in their basements, building performance spaces in their basements, having a printing press in the basement of one of their colleges,” Sundquist said, echoing similar sentiments expressed by Nelson and Gehrke. “In terms of public space...
...transition between those two aspects of your life? How do you balance them? MR: It can be difficult. But on the other hand it can be really rewarding. For example, because I was preparing a class to teach at Harvard, I happened to go to the basement of the Lamont Library and saw the Mercator globes, and as soon as I saw [them] I knew I just had to put them in my book. And they became so important that the title of my second novel actually became “The Celestial Globe.” I tend...
...shocking childhood scene recounted only 13 pages before the book's end: "I was with a group of children...playing in the side yard of a house that had a basement and an open basement window. At one point we crowded to the edge...and looked down into the empty room. The room must have been over eight feet deep. Perhaps it was deeper. There was a little boy crouching next to me at the edge of the window, and I turned to him, and pushed him so that he fell all the way down to the basement floor...
...between the LaserVue and the entertainment center to get the remote to work. But once we had the game on, it was worth the slight bruising: the colors were sensational and bright; the players, larger than life. I had lugged a pair of speakers up from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes"), Dorfman, an alumnus, brushed away a tear. Emboldened, I marveled at the superior picture quality. "Supposedly, the reds...