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...been frighteningly quiet since jumping from the Republican to the Reform Party last fall. Even when an attendant opened the front door of his house and allowed me in, Buchanan was nowhere to be seen. I was about to interview the bronze-colored bust of him in the foyer, if not the painting of him in the living room, when suddenly he emerged as if from a basement bunker...
...When we enter the building, we see folks strewn about the foyer and stairs, and we eventually find our way to the correct corridor. The party is winding down a bit, but still has ample attendees. The keg is definitely the sketchiest observed of the evening, as it is being kept in a garbage can, which is still accepting trash even with the keg inside. The guy serving is straddling it. Feeling the freedom that comes from having almost reached my goal, I dance a bit with Team Tag-along. Being on his home turf, Quadling Tad is pursued more...
Anecdotes are just anecdotes, but building--or destroying--trust is often based on those anecdotes. Whether a guard recognizes you or knows your name is just as ephemeral and fleeting as catching a guard asking directions or changing clothes in the Claverly Hall foyer, as one guard happened to be doing last week. Guards have not always responded quickly to calls on their radios and have at times responded to calls meant for others. Though some sort of adjustment is predictable, the high turnover of SSI employees makes us wonder if guards will be at Harvard long enough to learn...
Walking into the foyer of Claverly Hall one recent evening, students were startled to find the Security Systems Incorporated (SSI) guard changing clothes in the foyer...
...been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes had shuffled through the room in its first nine years, the carpet had been light and buoyant, as if in entirely different colors. Out in the Grand Foyer, a regilded ceiling now gleams above; plummy new fabrics provide a frame for the gold-backed mirrors along the walls; and over the great staircase Ezra Winter's gigantic The Fountain of Youth has been restored to such dazzling color that for a moment one can almost forget what a truly...