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Some House residents may find themselves with more roommates than they expected this fall, as cockroaches take up residence in rooms that went unused over the summer. Many students in the Houses have come face-to-face with cockroaches hiding in drains or in dark corners of their bedrooms. Others have reported seeing cockroaches in the daytime. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, “daytime sightings may indicate potentially heavy infestations.” Two summers ago in her Lowell House room, Lauren E. Jensen ’08 was talking...
DeWolfe: 1. Conveniently located overflow housing for students in various river houses. Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator, bathtub, and bay windows. 2. You and everyone else will subsidize these luxury condominiums by suffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubles when you’re sophomores...
...Juggling three mobile phones, Reinado gives orders, takes calls from journalists, and snipes at East Timor's government. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is "just a cockroach," he says with a laugh. "He tried to kill me. But I never hide. They know where to find me. I'm waiting for them...
...convinced you that Harvard Square is falling to pieces, we give you exhibit A, the return of the talking Sovereign Bank video screen. We thought some praiseworthy Robin Hood had stuck one to corporate America, breaking the screen for good, but, unfortunately, the video screen is like a cockroach in a Dunster bathroom. It just keeps coming back. For those living under a rock—why haven’t you thrown that rock through the video display—the bank has virtually imprisoned a multi-ethnic band of salespeople behind a pane of glass...
...André Brink might. He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned. And in his latest, Praying Mantis, which appeared August, South Africa's leading writer in Afrikaans harks back to the 18th and 19th centuries for a conscience-stricken novel about Cupido Cockroach, a character who despite his colorful name is based on a real historical figure. After a hell-raising youth, Cupido converts to Christianity and becomes the first "Hottentot", or Khoi, missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where...