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...example, Caramanis and his roommate Nikhil Wagle '99 just say no to sexiling. "We don't have to because we have two bunks," Wagle says. Others claim there are unspoken rules of communal living. "Usually if the door is shut, people know not to come in," says Gina M. Foster...

Author: By V. C. Hallett, | Title: behind closed doors | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

Joseph N. Sanberg '00, president of the College Democrats, said his hope was "to foster open dialogue. We're very comfortable with our own philosophy...

Author: By Steven E. Stryer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Horowitz Condemns Left, Universities | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...clear that McDonough and I are in quiet conversation, they bray at each other for several minutes as if we do not exist. To me their behavior is simply a moment of normal human rudeness, though it is a little jarring in a building that is supposed to foster collegial bliss. I suggest to McDonough that civility is something that cannot be designed, and he starts to agree. Then he stops, grows pensive and says, as if making a note to himself, "Design for civility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: WILLIAM MCDONOUGH: A Whole New World | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...newly-elected chair of the campus' first Cuban-American organization said yesterday the group's main objectives will be to foster Cuban-American culture on campus and to promote a free and democratic Cuba...

Author: By Traci R. Manning, | Title: Cuban-American Group Elects Officers | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...have three kids, ages 9, 8 and 5, and all of them--even the one in kindergarten--have homework. The excessive amounts that I have to oversee kill creative thinking and foster a real dislike of learning. The grownups who think homework is good for kids are the same ones who think lima beans and Brussels sprouts are great. It breaks my heart that dinner at my house is usually macaroni and cheese and a pall of gloom. LAUREN ARNOLD Mountain View, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 15, 1999 | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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