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...work" (some are Opus Dei members and some are not), who also clean the residence. "They keep the place like a house," says Anglada, "with fresh flowers and things like that. They are not servants, but they do not socialize or eat with us." In fact, social contact between women and the celibate numeraries is all but forbidden. When the ladies of the work arrive to clean, they place barriers at the entrance to the residential chambers and all the men clear out until they are finished. "We live apostolic celibacy so it's a way to ensure that," explains...
...personal care at least, most of what's available is in hippie packaging," says Onysko, founder and CEO of Pangea Organics Ecocentric Bodycare. Onysko can spot a hippie from a hundred paces, considering that his life as a junior high dropout and global drifter has put him in contact with more than a few of them...
...Affairs Committee, Campus Life Committee, and Finance Committee. Representatives choose where to serve according to how highly they placed (first, second, or third) in their House or Yard election. Unsurprisingly, an overwhelming majority chooses the first committee; being on the Student Affairs Committee allows representatives to have first-hand contact with the administration and claim credit for advocacy successes. What follows is an overflow of uninspired representatives on the other two committees who do not get what they wanted; they are stuck controlling budgets and planning social soirées. This is the system of indirect election—leaders...
...Life Sciences Education Committee, said that “many of our concentrations are too large, too broad, and too confusing.”Lieberman said that the new concentrations’ smaller size would “create an intimate, exciting environment with enhanced student-faculty contact.” And with more flexibility for students who want to count courses from other departments toward their concentration requirements, “it will be easier—not harder—for students to switch concentrations” under the new system.After the meeting, Dean of the Faculty William...
...signaling out.” Big assumption, maybe, but Horowitz has always been up for the challenge. At eight, he became the world’s youngest licensed amateur radio operator. More recently, he served as a model for the protagonist in astronomer Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, made into a 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster. Fame can bring glory, but not necessarily little green men—or their flashing lights...