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Party suites and river views aren’t the only criteria by which to pick a room. One must also consider the secrets that the room’s four walls might conceal, some of which have sparked age-old myths and rumors that still manage to frighten residents today. Eliot has always had a reputation of housing Harvard’s elite, but rumor has it that its residents haven’t always received the royal treatment. “I heard that in Eliot, you have to sleep in the servants’ quarters...
...league, but do you know what would be a great step in that direction? If at quiet Pizzatola Sports Center, there was a live bear as a mascot! Think about it, a big hairy scary bear would constantly roar at the opposing team to frighten the jeepers out of it and also dance around the court at halftime to provide better entertainment than any other halftime stuff I’ve seen in the Ivies...
...felt stressed about grades, I was in all the wrong student groups, and I still didn’t know what I wanted to do in life. The feeling of this indecision—which I had been so comfortable with as a freshman—started to frighten me. Fear festered into unhappiness. All of a sudden, I was the one who was lost. I was the one who needed...
...affluent teenagers found killed this year in Mexico City. The family of one, Fernando Marti, 14, had actually already paid a ransom of more than $2 million. Even those victims who are spared are increasingly returned with body parts like ears missing: their abductors send them to relatives to frighten them into delivering ransom more quickly. "We cannot live under this pressure," says one upper-middle-class Saltillo woman who has seen several family members kidnapped in recent years. "All the time we are looking over our shoulder, the car windows always up, ringing the children on the cell...
...Stable Boy to herself. Even in the throes of passion on the stable floor, she sensed his mind wandering off. She had seen him watching for the post and had wondered if he were waiting for a letter from another lover. Oddly, the thought did not frighten her. She knew The Stable Boy was no longer enough for her. She was ready to move on.There was a strange clip-clop in the hallway.“Ah,” said Felicity. “It’s about time.”She sprang up and opened...