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...Drop by unannounced on old pals Warren and Annette. Wait in foyer half an hour, leave card, sit in car another half an hour. Think I hear noises upstairs. Must be the kids. Drive home...
...summer tourists a disappointing and strange sight of the Ground Zero flag in what could have been an emotionally charged and thought-provoking exhibit. Instead, the curators seemed to think that the flag and a collection of photographs of the World Trade Center would be better left in a foyer of the Arts and Industries Building, one of the Smithsonian’s most run-down and out-dated spaces...
Additionally, one must wonder why the exhibit was not even given a proper room. A foyer must be one of the worst possible places to hold any show. Psychologically, it suggests that the exhibit is an afterthought, that it did not warrant a special area. Logistically, it creates crowd control problems besides threatening the coherence of the exhibit itself...
...home, I’m surprised when a young, sleepy-eyed boy answers the door. A bearded man with a black beret, plaid shirt and short ponytail—the man who’s asked me to please call him Ted—follows his son into the foyer. “Take off your shoes and come on in,” he says...
...clubs differ greatly amongst themselves and tried instead to straitjacket all of the clubs into the stereotype of abusive, dangerous institutions. For example, the RUS never properly explained how the Porcellian Club could attack women when it refuses to admit non-members (and, by implication, all females) beyond its foyer. Misleading information that seeks to lump the eight different clubs together does not help to establish a mature debate about the role of final clubs at Harvard...