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...pets to day care at Camp Canine, where, for $22 a day, the dogs can play to exhaustion and then watch videos such as 101 Dalmations. "It's like children's day care. They get time outs and treats," says owner Lisa Schettino, adding, "Some of the dogs are cliquey." And for those who are forced to leave their dogs overnight at places that used to be called kennels, there are now Canyon Ranch--style options. At Tappen Hill, in the wine country north of San Francisco, $36 a night will get a pup access to heated floors, two swimming...
Like any regular Thursday morning, I was busily scribbling notes from The Crimson's cliquey front row of Professor Harvey "C -" Mansfield's moral reasoning lecture, when from a few seats behind me I heard an old woman burst into a garbled, phlegm-filled hacking fit. If I were mature, I would have disregarded this disruption of Book Eight of Plato's Republic like everyone else in the class. But I'm not, so I giggled at the funny noise. My outburst was audible for just a second because I clenched my body to hold in the laughter. I shook...
Like any regular Thursday morning, I was busily scribbling notes from The Crimson's cliquey front row of Professor Harvey "C -" Mansfield's moral reasoning lecture, when from a few seats behind me I heard an old woman burst into a garbled, phlegm-filled hacking fit. If I were mature, I would have disregarded this disruption of Book Eight of Plato's Republic like everyone else in the class. But I'm not, so I giggled at the funny noise. My outburst was audible for just a second because I clenched my body to hold in the laughter. I shook...
...other hand, it is unnerving that I can't quite determine whether it's my own immaturity or whether Harvard is a four-year, sleep-away-camp mixer. Being "boy crazy" and "cliquey" and getting a thrill from under age drinking hasn't exactly faded into the past. At parties, girls still stand in the corner to whisper ("That style is, like, so five minutes ago!") and gossip about recent hook-ups ("Those two together? As if!"). Boys demonstrate their ever-raging hormones by "grinding" with each other on the dance floor, chugging beer...
...second goal is to bring various types of women together. In the past that never seemed to happen. Women have stayed in splintered, cliquey social groups," she said...