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Putting down satisfactory Houses is an extremely painful task when the blocking group gets large. Everybody has his opinion of what is awesome and what sucks. The beautiful Eliot is heaven to some but its all-doubles feature makes it hellish to others. The spacious and faraway Pforzheimer is great in the eyes of people who enjoy carving out a world of their own, but it is a night-mare to those who place the highest value on social life within a big community. No house is perfect, so a list of four selections acceptable for a group of eight...
...between characters are not that intimate, they sometimes know one another by sight, because commerce and communications keep shrinking the world. War zones nowadays have area codes, and the vision of a terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point almost surrealistically: his peasant gunmen go about their bloody business clad in Nikes and other American-made sports gear...
...problem is more acute than a misdiagnosis of our social problems. The most pernicious effects of this racial corporatism are felt in faraway places, in Bosnia and Rwanda and Turkey and Chechnya. While America is hardly threatened by a race war, its existence as a unified state has always depended on relegating ethnicity to the perimeter of politics...
...card catalogs to faraway places are only useful to the extent that they can satisfy personal needs. If you have a paper due tomorrow, having HOLLIS Plus tell you that the one odd book you need is sitting on a shelf at UC Berkeley doesn't help much...
...couple had sex twice a week, and I've carried this figure in my head for more than 30 years, as a benchmark, like the .300 batting average or the idea of three square meals a day. There have been times when any sex at all was a beautiful faraway ideal, like reincarnation, and there have been other periods when twice a day or hourly seemed pretty normal. But twice weekly was the norm, I thought, so it's a surprise to learn that according to the new survey, once a week is more like it. Only about a third...