Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly diverse. In fact, one of the most intruiging things about anime is that it defies generalization. "I wouldn't call anime a genre, because it is so versatile, and its versatility is completely exercised by Japanese animators," Huang said. "In the broad picture, the only thing completely in common is that it's animated, and it's by Japanese people...
When Jacob A. Rubin '03 returned to his room in Matthews Hall around 3:30 a.m. the morning of Sunday, Oct. 3, he left his Yankees cap on his desk in his suite's common room. The next morning, his roommate Geoffrey M. Stevens '03 woke up around 11 a.m. He checked his e-mail and then went to the bathroom. The bathrooms in Matthews don't have any paper towels, just an ineffectual hand-dryer, so Stevens dried his hands with toilet paper. When he threw the wad of toilet paper in the garbage can, he saw it land...
...Rubin was awake and using his laptop computer at his desk when Stevens returned to the common room and asked Rubin if his hat was in the bathroom garbage. As Matthew D. Gibson '03, the third roommate, remembers, "Jake was like, 'No, it's right on my desk.'" But when Rubin checked his desk, he saw his hat wasn't where he left it. "We thought it was a prank," Gibson says. Rubin recalls: "I was very perplexed, to say the least, because at that time we hadn't realized anything else was stolen. We thought someone had broken...
...change into shorts and a T-shirt, fill up a water bottle and walk over to the field with Stevens. As they were leaving, Stevens went to grab his Harvard I.D. card from his wallet but his wallet was gone. It had been in his desk in the common room. "I looked around the room--I thought maybe I had left it somewhere or misplaced it. But then I thought I'd check that garbage again." Rubin left the suite while Stevens was still looking for his wallet, "worried about my teammate, but looking ahead to the game...
...Harvard I.D., his debit card and all his cash--about $20--were taken from his wallet. Why didn't the robber also take Gibson's calculator? Gibson theorizes that the burglar didn't take his calculator, or the three laptops, or Stevens's stereo or television, all in the common room, because the robber "didn't want to hassle with [selling] or anything. He just wanted totally liquid stuff...