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...Kintyre, this cliff-edged island is reachable by a 45-min. ferry ride from Ballycastle. Few vehicles mean Rathlin is a haven for walkers and cyclists; the nature reserve and bird sanctuary area allow visitors to get close to seals and puffins. It's a grand day out, or bunk at the modest Manor House, tel: (44-28) 2076 3964. On a clear day, you can see forever - or at least to Scotland. ntni.org.uk
...Uhhh...neither am I. Let’s not tell anyone. 4) You look lost. Let me help you find my room. 5) Have you heard anything negative about dark final club basements? No? Perfect. 6) I am 21 years old. 7) I have a bottom bunk. 8) Let’s do breakfast tomorrow. Shall I call you or nudge you? 9) Actually, everyone here thinks a capella guys are the shit. 10) Uh, yeah, we’ll start dating and everything as soon as you get here. 11) You have to do this thing called Primal Scream...
...sophomore year approaches, freshmen, beware—the Yard’s bunk beds and random roommates can be pretty bad, but some of the worst living at Harvard is in the Houses. FM scoured both River and Quad, leaving no roach-infested walk-through unvisited and no synonym for “small” unused, to identify the most atrocious rooms. The few and the proud, all housing sophomores: Lowell M-12: Crimson editor Joy Z. Chen is at a loss to describe the shape of the Polly Pocket-sized common room in her double?...
...things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting on his bunk during a break between shifts in January, when Time was invited for a rare visit to the oil operation. "We have nothing." But that could soon change - perhaps dramatically, according to oil engineers. Last week, Kurdish officials announced that the rig outside Tawke would begin producing oil early next year - Iraq...
...this point my copy of This Book Will Save Your Life was a sea of rolling eyes. And I haven't even mentioned how Richard foils a kidnapper or the time he meets Gerald Ford. This is the kind of bunk we're used to in movies (This Book could pass for a loose novelization of the Haley Joel Osment confection Pay It Forward, without even the saving grace of an unhappy ending). But from you, literature, old friend? Novels are a place where we exfoliate our souls with the rough edges of life, not pamper ourselves with fantasies that...