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...characters always go for car rides to sort out their troubled lives. Apparently, it seems to help. Add a couple more people to the car, though, and passengers become at ease in a way that would be unnatural in any other setting: the passengers sit, facing forward, avoiding eye contact and generally unable to read each others’ faces. This creates a huge zone of and for the personal. Skin-to-skin contact is discouraged, dousing the average four-door’s potential for any kind of intimacy. In any other environment, avoiding all eye and skin contact...
...himself accessible to students, but only a handful—those lucky enough to be passing through a dining hall when he stopped to eat or those fortunate enough to be members of an organization whose opinion he chose to solicit. The vast majority of undergraduates have had no contact with Summers, nor will they unless he chooses to start hosting events that are made public in advance and open to any student who wants to attend. Taking an accurate pulse of the University will require that Summers avail himself to the student body as a whole; this is something...
...might have been hard for students who live on the River to ignore the sounds of music and games on the Mac Quad, for many students who live in the Radcliffe Quad, the fact that Springfest was even happening came as a surprise. No one who I came in contact with throughout the day on Saturday mentioned the event—not a scientific measure by any standard, but telling nevertheless...
...first hint of the true nature of the e-mail when I read the first line of the body text: “Contact, Joe Wrinn” University press-flack extraordinaire. The message—apparently sent to all undergraduates—criticizes the Living Wage Campaign’s Mass. Hall sit-in and describes the University’s position on employee pay. I was not the recipient of a special message from our illustrious leader. I was the victim of presidential spam...
...office as the city council dickers over his recommendation to find somewhere other than city property to plant Forrest. Perkins was offended that the statue was raised at all in a town where he grew up under Jim Crow, knowing he could get locked up for mere eye contact with a white woman. And he was offended that instead of beginning his term by getting a jump on job development and education reform, he was dragged into a 150-year-old conflict about race...