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Matthews will also be renovated nextyear; residents of this dorm will move across theYard to Weld after first semester. Matthews'Gothic exterior resembles the set of a horrormovie, and its dark interior hallways can be alittle spooky. But the woodpaneled rooms arenicely sized, and Matthews residents often turnthe hallways and stairwell into an arena forcreative dorm games...
...sculpture daily wonder about its origins, but never learn the truth. Crimson Key tour guides may mention the lion-turtle (actually a dragon), but tend to concentrate on more mundane tales of John Harvard and the "statue of three lies." The history of Harvard's buildings--the exterior of the Ivory Tower--is all too often lost among the cliches...
Before nasa's newest shuttle Endeavour finally lifted off last week, maintenance technicians had plenty of troubleshooting to do. The $2 billion ship arrived at the Kennedy Space Center looking pretty enough, but beneath Endeavour's sleek exterior lay more than 2,000 problems, including a defective set of main engines. And wedged among the tangle of dangling wires, hydraulic pipes and contaminated water lines was one moldy Oreo cookie...
...recent events have made painfully clear, the cheery exterior the president witnessed at the autumn gala belied a deeply ingrained, troubling problem, one that is wrapped up in a community of difference: Racial tensions continue to rip the University fabric, as students, faculty and administrators draw seemingly uncrossable lines on issues of diversity and insensitivity...
Freud said that all humor is displaced anger, but that is news to Leno. "I was never angry," he says. "I could never relate to comedians like Lenny Bruce." But beneath Leno's "What, me worry?" exterior, there does lurk a subterranean anger. "It's so stupid," he says, uttering this phrase perhaps 20 times a day, pronouncing the word "stew-pid." He sees a newspaper ad describing a knife as "perfect for a night out on the town." He shakes his head. "It's so stew-pid." Small-mindedness irks him; he can tolerate anything but intolerance...