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THROUGHOUT THE WINTER, THE SELF-CONSCIOUS masses can mask their smelly feet problems with boots, leather armor and thick socks. But when warm weather brings out daisy dukes, tube tops and the requisite strappy sandals, rancid foot sufferers are caught in a bind. Do they dare to bear their toes and risk losing their friends to the stench? Smelly feet aren't a total loss. Andrew D. Hackbarth '99 attributes the name of his party-prone room in Kirkland House, The Swamp, to his roommate's notorious foot odor problem. But usually, the revealing skin of open toe cleavage, spaghetti...
...Institute will "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society," according to officials. However, leaders have said that issues of gender will not remain Radcliffe's exclusive focus. The ties that will bind the new interdisciplinary center together have yet to be determined exactly...
...those caught in the bind is J. C. Watts, head of the House Republican Conference, the only black Republican in Congress and one of the party's fastest-rising stars. "He supported term limits," says his chief of staff, Pam Pryor, "and he still does. But he doesn't know what he's going to do in 2000." Why? "Because he's still weighing what's in the best interest of his district." But he promised, didn't he? "Yes, and it's a good idea," says Pryor, "but it works only if everybody lives under the same rules...
...Christmas, these entirely estranged people are linked by their common past and by genetic inescapability symbolized by their individual manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex glove-wearing paranoid trapped in his own neurosis...
...Cambridge, the City Council is expected to pass a living wage ordinance of $10 this Friday. Still, such a measure would not necessarily bind Harvard, which does not benefit from Cambridge money (it does receive tax exemptions and other subsidies, however). The Harvard Living Wage Campaign, backed by the Undergraduate Council, simply wants the largest employer in Cambridge to mirror city standards...