Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give me your MTV logoed North Face parka, and I'll cough up a nickel for your disadvantaged friend." No deal. The line again shuffles forward. We bid Judd Hirsch adieu and greet the cast next door...
Evil sneaks inside, steals laptops, burgles rooms, even rapes. Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects out attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...
...level of awareness. Harvard tends to reward total thinking, the welding of reader with book, the stopping of time in darkroom or laboratory. But only in the rarest of situations is such focus wholly safe. Always a scrap of mindfulness must caress the environment, noting perhaps the softly closing door, the far-off squeak, the scent of perfume or smoke or fear, the look crossing someone's eyes. Full and undivided attention encourages all sorts of surprise, sometimes grisly, and some surprise originates within gates, among colleagues, even among friends about to become strangers...
...crazy Saturday nights consisted of renting a video and sharing a pack of red licorice with a group of friends. Single family homes line the streets, the "cookie-cutter" houses on half-acre lots a perfect example of the architectural monotony of suburbia. My family never locks our front door, and people take walks through the neighborhood on sunny afternoons. But you've heard this story before...
...feared, the tie to undergraduate women at Harvard has been cut, and I'm very sorry about that," said Peggy M. McIntosh '56, who resigned her post as second vice president of RCAA last spring because of her frustrations with the closed-door negotiations. "Even if undergraduate programs at Radcliffe weren't strong, they meant a lot to women...