Word: couchful
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...IDLE HANDS For the 16-day Knitting Olympics, some 4,000 crafty couch potatoes have set a series of stitching goals they want to reach while watching the Games. Charitable projects include making clothes for U.S. pregnancy centers and for tots in Mongolia...
...have to be Freud to figure out that the $1 billion executive-coaching industry is an opportunity. So psychoanalysis is expanding off the couch and into the boardroom. It's a specialty that requires no special training--anyone can be a coach--yet fees reach $1,000 an hour. At the American Psychoanalytic Association's annual meeting last month, nervous newcomers quizzed established coaches on everything from confidentiality to marketing. "Much of it goes against our training, having to focus on group dynamics instead of the individual," says Kerry Sulkowicz, a psychiatrist. Another presenter, Kathleen Pogue White, says a constant...
...paycheck goes to child care for her son Hayden, 8 months old. She still lives in an apartment subsidized and furnished by Our Lady's Inn. Pointing to her spartan surroundings, she notes, "All the furniture in this apartment is theirs. All of it: the TV, the bed, the couch, the crib, the coffee table, dishes--everything I need...
...table that groans under the weight of old books in various states of disrepair. Some lie sandwiched between unbound covers, and a few are clamped in vices he uses to align their bindings.The walls of the workshop are matted with photographs and old correspondence. An old orange couch sits in the corner. It looks suspiciously as if it’s also served as a bed.Marshall himself, a polymath with sensibilities far from the commercial mainstream, recalls a dying Square culture shaped by personal ingenuity and happenstance. His world of books and ephemera overlaps with the University?...
...steamroll over anyone who gets in its way.It must have been extremely difficult for the administrators who signed off on this project to do so, knowing that their houses and work areas were located far, far away from ground zero. But they should all know that I have a couch waiting for them in Leverett if they ever are wandering around the River looking for a place to sleep or study. I just hope they remember to bring their earplugs. Andrew Kreicher ’06 is a biology concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears regularly...