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...stop by on their morning commute to see her and shake her hand, wanting proof that she did in fact exist. Stenson said her senior project, the equivalent of a senior thesis for engineering science concentrators, came from her experience traveling in South Africa. She is currently designing a chimney for thatched-roof huts that would provide heat and reduce the indoor air pollution that results from using wood fires to cook food indoors. And in addition to project ideas, Stenson returned home with a curious souvenir: dreadlocks, courtesy of a South African salon. Back on campus, Stenson stays active...
...Young Fred had been his parents' joy until little Nick came along. They immediately found constant fault with Fred, even as they cheered everything the baby did: giving away his presents to needier kids, jumping down a chimney, chopping down a fir tree that his big brother happened to be perched in. Momma Claus (Kathy Bates) is the same kind of ego-destroyer as Steve Carell's mother is in Dan in Real Life. Her ragging on Fred, while Nick becomes a hero to children every December, leads Fred to spectacular resentment.? In a scene that's way too "ouch...
...Union and vicariously experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow the Grateful Dead, but I had had enough Harvard by the time I decided to move on. So, in 1987, I turned away from Harvard Square and did not look back—for 20 years...
...them. Our Great Leader told us that the class enemies are secreting gold and weapons. He can't be wrong.'' The Revolutionaries ripped open mattresses, cut the upholstery of the chairs and sofas, removed tiles from the walls of the bathrooms, poked in the fireplace and the chimney, lifted floorboards, climbed onto the roof, fished in the water tank under the ceiling and crawled under the floor. Darkness had long descended on the city when they decided to dig up the garden. They switched on the terrace lights and started digging. The damp, ash-covered lawn was trampled into...
...troops in Iraq were the people of the year, not a select group of computer users sitting on their backsides. We may be watching videos online, but they are putting their lives on the line. Camille E. Cazedessus Chimney Rock, Colorado...