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...travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." During the long, bitter years when Gordon Brown hungered for the top job in British politics, he'd never have agreed with this sentiment framed by a fellow Scot, 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson. After Brown finally collected the keys to 10 Downing Street on June 27, his first three months in office exceeded expectations - his and his country's. Many Britons, even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective...
...Primarily I’ve become a different kind of teacher, teaching same things, creative writing and literature, and religious studies, but I think I’ve become more of a fellow student and less of an authoritarian teacher...
...takes only an extra 30 seconds to remove the load carefully, instead of dumping piles of dripping pants, underwear and towels onto a dust covered countertop (losing a sock in the process). On the flip side, the average drying cycle lasts about 56 minutes. No one expects fellow students to time their loads to the minute, returning to fetch clean clothes at the exact moment of completion. Most of us run on incredibly tight schedules, and don’t factor in a two-hour wash-and-dry endeavor every week. When it’s a question of wearing...
...getting cold.” This year, $200 each were awarded to about 300 freshman through the fund, said Donahue. Student representatives from the north had different reactions to the first flurries. Co-Prime Minister of the Canadian Club Xiaodi Wu ’09 said his fellow countrymen were unimpressed. “I’ve seen snow, and this isn’t snow. This is God’s dandruff,” he said. Kenny W. McKinley ’08, co-president of the Alaska Klub, said he was excited...
...serious, our politics have mostly been kept out of our rooms, away from the halls of Wigglesworth and crowded doubles of the River Houses—brushed off at the threshold like February snow and March mud.Sometime last winter, that all began to change for me. A friendly fellow Adams House resident showed up at the door, promising better lighting. Getting up at 10 a.m. in January allows for little more than six hours of sunlight a day. How could I resist? Off went my old light bulbs, in came the new—strange, corkscrew-shaped compact fluorescent lights...