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...took the powers-that-be about a year and a half to set up the Committee of Inquiry. In that time, the other side of the coin, the CRR and its predecessors, had punished in various ways over 220 students. Fifty-six students were required to leave Harvard. The Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is in theory a two-way street, but in fact the traffic only flows one way: "We're right, you're responsible...
...ever to leave, nor should leaving be necessary for the building's many widows, spinsters and retired couples. Everything required for day-to-day life is contained within Big John's walls: grocery, five restaurants (one for residents only), a department store, a bank, two cocktail lounges, coin washers and dryers, and even a branch of Cartier's in which to browse. Floors No. 13 to 41 house 141 office tenants, and there are 24 more commercial tenants divided between the topmost floors (public restaurant and bar, television-transmitter technicians) and the lower (garage space and shops...
...Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard? is a collection of her Sunday articles, which are sadly often hidden among gardening and coin and stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed...
...world began to leave him; a persistent mist erased the lines of his hand, the night lost its multitude of stars. He went deep into his past, which seemed to him bottomless, and managed to draw out of that dizzying descent the lost memory that now shone like a coin under the rain." That memory is of a boyhood encounter, with drawn daggers, at the edge of the sea. "The exact taste of that moment was what he now sought. In this nighttime of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were also in wait...
Munro has not decided who will start in goal. "We've got two such great goalies," he said. "I haven't found any way to keep one happy on the bench. I'll probably end up flipping a coin...