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Much of the merchandise is prosaic - flashlights, generators and, for fighting file clerks, a bullet-proof clipboard...
October 9, 3:43 a.m.--The Freshman Dean's office reported a fire in Matthews Hall. A clipboard hanging on a door in the south entry was set on fire, damaging the door...
There is talk of Cuisinarts and couscous and knives as the group waits for the class to start. Then everybody scribbles away on a clipboard while Hazan ticks off on two big wall maps the different gastronomical and geographical regions of Italy ("We have 6,000 basic recipes"), expounds the secrets of olive oil, flour and cow cheese, goat cheese and sheep cheese. As if photographing each step on their minds, the students crane forward to retain the maestra's skill in boning chicken breasts ("Save the skins!"), her hammering of scallopini, her preparation from scratch of four-egg pasta...
...passed, during the last generation, into the popular domain. These days it can be casually overheard around almost any office, street corner or watering hole. Indeed, many Americans have begun to sound, and a few to act, as though the appropriate way to navigate the holidays is with a clipboard and psychiatric checklist for keeping track of casualties...
Throughout the day, a few people are bound to forget their bursar's cards -- but that's no problem. A girl comes into the library who's forgotten her wallet. Corliss whips out his clipboard, and she's signed in. A grad student comes in just to drop off some reserve books, so he doesn't have to show his card. A slightly nervous guy enters with two non-Harvard friends whom he wants to "show around"; Corliss lets them through immediately without any formalities. He's a nice...