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There are other minor inconveniences, such as the lack of bookshelf space and undraped windows, but these don't compare to the major problem with DeWolfe Street and any other overflow housing, which is that they detract from what Harvard so proudly boasts as one of its most positive aspects: the House experience. By living apart from the rest of our house, we miss out on the social experience our peers enjoy. All in all, I am very disappointed to be living DeWolfe. Ezra Perlman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeWolfe Ain't So Great | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

...NIGHT, the manager of my restaurant stopped me and said "Hey, you go to Harvard, could you put together this bookshelf?" Big mistake...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: This Is Not Vo-Tech | 9/8/1991 | See Source »

Over the years he has built a loyal following, particularly among cynical baby boomers. Although his first crude efforts at experimental poetry have been consigned to a dusty bookshelf in his seven-fireplace New Hampshire home, O'Rourke found success in the late 1970s as editor in chief at National Lampoon. By the early 1980s, he started free-lancing and soon became a Rolling Stone regular. Several books followed, among them Holidays in Hell, an outrageous account of his world travels, and Republican Party Reptile, an uneven collection of essays that includes his infamous "How to Drive Fast on Drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Cows, Scuds and Scotch: P. J. O'ROURKE | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...life. Many publications have answered that description in their time, from the medieval compendiums to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1768, to three contemporary one-volume works. Which one of that trio is best? It depends on the size of the reader's requirements, bank account and bookshelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Can Look It Up | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

February 3: Today my roommate gave me a copy of TETRIS. It looks stupid and simple. I played one game, and then wrote a list of 30 courses to shop. I played another game, and then reorganized my bookshelf alphabetically, by author. I played another game...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Confessions of a TETRIS Junkie | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

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