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...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...
...Lying on a couch with her leg raised to prevent infection, she started to rewrite her book “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions.” The book presents her research on the geometry of space, extra dimensions, and gravity in an entertaining style...
...minutes before U2 was due to perform, Bono strolled in and plopped himself down--not on the couch or near it but on top of it, like a household pet. Then he began talking about the one interest that Clooney, Wolfowitz and almost everyone else who had come to Scotland that day had in common: persuading developed nations to help lift 1 billion people out of extreme poverty. Bono's precise words on the subject are lost to history. "I couldn't stop looking at him," says Clooney. "He's so affectless. You felt like you're in the living...
...JUMP THE COUCH Tom Cruise gave rise to this phrase, denoting the point at which people seem to lose their marbles, when he hopped on Oprah's sofa to declare his love for Katie Holmes...