Word: formalization
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FlyBy donned our Sunday best every day last week while heading to each house's spring formal. Our guide to the balls being inadequate, a more thorough investigation was necessary. Below: Leverett, Dunster and Quincy...
Leverett has never been known as a “cool” house, so when its HoCo tossed aside plans for an ultra-fancy formal at the top of Boston’s Prudential Center in favor of a standard in-house affair, you can understand why some (FlyBy among them) thought it would be business as usual in everyone’s favorite pit stop on the way to fun in Mather...
...those who decided to pass up Lev’s “Casablanca”-themed spring formal haven’t been paying enough attention, because things at Mill and Dewolfe have been different as of late. If Leverett’s open-list spat over its formal location showed anything, it was that, for the first time in FlyBy’s memory, more than a handful of people actually cared about the going-ons of Leverett. And as it turns out, when people actually care about the house, it can be a pretty cool place?...
Probably not, but the affair had many other charms. Clearly, it was the courtyard's time to shine: given that every nook and cranny was used, formal-goers got to explore all the contours of the space. While FlyBy felt it made the formal feel a bit more sparsely populated, each section had its own charms...
...weekend battles that "the world is watching Sri Lanka and would not accept further violations of international law." The five-member Security Council already held an informal session about Sri Lanka on April 11, and some members have lobbied for wider UN action. But moves to initiate a formal Security Council session on Sri Lanka have been thwarted by China and Russia. The government sees this effort to apply diplomatic pressure - through UN action or a debate at the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council - as, in effect, giving aid to the Tigers...