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...remember those “Faculty Conversations with First-Year Students” booklets we received before we even set foot here in the fall? Remember those chats on Emerson, Gates, and Co. that we had, way back in the day, before we even shopped our first class? Leafing through my copy the other day, I came upon this lovely first sentence in its introduction: “The essays in this booklet challenge us to think about the individual and the educational community in which we live, the ways in which the community is a diverse...
...Crimson had a chat with Harvard captain Erik Grimm, the 6’5, 270 lb. stalwart defensive...
...cafeteria at New York City's Hudson Hotel, where an old standard like macaroni and cheese is made with white-truffle oil and sells for $19 a plate, is an appropriate place to chat. Neil Fiske did, after all, write the book on America's newfound obsession with affordable luxury--literally. He co-wrote Trading Up and coined that term to explain why you now pay $4 for a cup of Starbucks or $4,000 for a Viking range even though you are (your tax returns show) solidly middle class. "There's a pretty significant shift in the social paradigm...
...waiting for the screw-ups to be corrected, Gray used his time to work up a funny monologue in which his experiences, giddily exaggerated, commented on the folly and wastefulness of human enterprise. Further, Gray had the wit not to waste his routine in living rooms. He staged his chat -- just the speaker seated at his desk, a map behind him -- in theaters across the U.S. Now Director Jonathan Demme has filmed it in a manner matching Gray's; it is expert in an innocent- seeming...
...scene looks normal enough. A group of teachers sit talking quietly in an empty room in a brand-new, cavernous school. Drinking bad instant coffee, they chat about everything from a problem student?"God, I hope we're not going to get him next year"?to furniture for their staff room. One instructor, Elena Kasumova, leafs through a small questionnaire she gave some 11-year-olds 18 months ago. The first question was, "What do you fear most?" Spiders, answered one girl. Low grades, another. The loss of someone close to me, wrote a third...