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...University plans to convert about half its apartment units into affiliate housing and to set aside some of the remainder as permanently affordable housing...
Maxine Rodberg's Expos class turned him on to writing, which is curently his "greatest passion." Ben-Shachar, who is a Crimson editor, has had his editorials published not only on the pages of The Crimson, but also in Israeli newspapers Ha'aretz and Ma'ariv. He plans to convert his thesis, "Honesty Pays," a psychological and philosophical defense of what he believes is indeed the best policy, into a book for "what philosophers would call the 'ordinary...
...never waste time, but that's what I regret the most," Pasquale says. "I read all the time, and when you do that, it's tough to switch gears. Trying to actually engage people and convert this big massive knowledge is difficult...
...earn a bit of money, he did so by editing a not very successful soft-porn magazine called Hot Dog). The super-American, his daughter learns, was born not in Ohio, as he claimed, but in Vilna, Lithuania, five years earlier than his supposed birth date. The Jewish convert to right-wing Catholicism, Mary finds, was never accepted as anything but a Jew by his wife's Irish Catholic family. Most pathetically, perhaps, the father remembered as young, dashing and handsome--her Jimmy Stewart, the daughter says--is toothless, potbellied and old in the snapshots she digs...
...supply the moods and textures missing from the script. In the end, though, Twister proves what everyone already knows--that great visual effects alone cannot carry a picture to anything but insane profitability. And that Michael Crichton has never met man, woman or scientific phenomenon that he cannot convert to dehumanized cliche...