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However, Adams House dining services is building a covered skylight conservatory for extra dining hall seating in the courtyard beside the Gold Room, said Leonard D. Condenzio, associate director of dining services...

Author: By Suzanne F. Gauron, | Title: Houses Undergo Summer Face-Lifts | 8/1/1997 | See Source »

...home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that would be a courtyard). To Sealfon, whose shouted staccato spelling style was startling to the uninitiated, the whole experience must have seemed oneiric. (Look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 9, 1997 | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...couple nights ago, I joined a group of about 10 fellow graduating seniors sitting in the Eliot courtyard beneath the starry sky. The mix of celebratory alcohol, cigar smoke and nostalgia wafted through the air as a midnight breeze swirled around gently. It was a moment I'll remember forever, one of those priceless gatherings of community. There aren't enough of them at Harvard...

Author: By Christopher R. Mcfadden, | Title: Harvard Degrees and Life Mysteries | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting out the obligatory re-spell -- "Euonym!" -- and bouncing around the stage in sheer joy. Runner-up Prem Murthy Trivedi of Howell, N.J. went dictionary-to-dictionary alone with Rebecca for nine rounds before bowing out on "cortile," a word meaning courtyard. The two were the final survivors of the original field of 245. And then there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Score One For Home Schooling | 5/29/1997 | See Source »

...recounted his first day in prison: "I watched the courtyard through a window. There I saw people being tortured with sticks, cattle prods, everything. A guard saw me and pointed, 'do you see this? Tomorrow this is what is going to happen...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: Monk Describes Torture | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

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