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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rise, sophomores and juniors get two-story suites with 4-6 singles and a party-friendly common room. In the tower, which is one of the tallest buildings in Cambridge, seniors look down on other Houses (literally and figuratively) from the commanding heights of their 18th-floor singles. Yes, the architecture, which residents have affectionately dubbed "Soviet bloc," is unlike any other Harvard House.  Prospective residents should note that, in the event of nuclear holocaust, only Mather House and Dunster’s roaches will survive. (Don't worry, they won't last long: roaches can't live...

Author: By Meredith C. Baker and Cara K. Fahey | Title: The Housing Crisis: Mather House | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...cool, dim room, he found his attacker - a 19-year old with a pubescent mustache, in a red and black Real Madrid tracksuit - sitting on a couch between two older women. As the women began to scream, Maui picked up the young man and hurled him to the floor, yelling obscenities and threats until Kim told him to calm down and go outside. The other soldiers set up guard around the house as the young man's father cried in English that "something is wrong, something is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ras al-Koor, the Iraqi Police Is More Feared than U.S. Soldiers | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...station, Kim sat the young man down on the floor of commanding officer Lieutenant Karim's office and began to question him, in tandem with the Iraqis. A television played a muted Arabic melodrama in the corner. The young man denied everything. His eyes darted, periodically, to a length of rubber tubing leaning against Karim's desk. As the questioning continued, the Iraqis occasionally passed the tubing back and forth, and one of them whispered something in the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ras al-Koor, the Iraqi Police Is More Feared than U.S. Soldiers | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

Rooming: Unreal. N + 1 housing does not exist in Pfoho. And why is that? Because no such formula is needed if everyone is guaranteed a single, a common room, and possibly a kitchen, if you're lucky. And the floor-length windows in Jordan? Just make sure you draw the shades lest the College's residential life Dean Suzy M. Nelson calls the cops on you for the "very indiscreet goings-on" in the privacy of your 125 sqaure-foot bedroom overlooking her backyard...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: The Housing Crisis: Pforzheimer House | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...President Obama on Wednesday announcing their intention to work together to draft legislation. The cooperation among committees in both chambers is a break from the 1994 attempt at health-care reform, when committee infighting helped sink that effort. Both chambers have said they intend to see legislation reach the floor before the August recess, though many admit the tougher part will come when the differences between the two versions must be reconciled. "The House bill will be the high-water mark of what we'd like to do with the system," says a Democratic Senate staffer involved in the talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bipartisan Senate Group Makes Health-Care Progress | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

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