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President Comstock finds the approach of Radcliffe administrators a difficult one with which to work. "Everything is sort of off the record. It makes it harder for students to have input, but it is also the reason administrators give for not making a fuss," she says...
...Gnomes, this sort of short people's Roots, ended here it would leave the reader wondering what all the fuss is about. Sure, little bearded men gamboling through the glades are cute, (bordering on the too-cute), but why would a grown man spend all that time and effort writing about not-so-full-grown people, especially when Tolkien and his hobbit horde seem to have preempted the field? Ignoring possible monetary reasons, it seems Huygen is trying to tell us something here. By attributing to gnomes a host of qualities he sees as lacking in human beings, like peacefulness...
...still, is an ice cream store worth such a fuss? Don't we know, people sometimes asked, that most people work in jobs where they take orders, and understand they are putting in time to make money for the owner? Yes, we know. But we have seen that work can be better than that, and now we don't intend to forget. We hope that, gradually, other people will come to share that vision; that one day we'll all expect jobs that let us work for shared goals, not just for money. Then the Steve's strike...
...fuss about electing a mayor? Cambridge's mayor gets to cast the deciding vote on the six-member School Committee, chair the city council, and take home an extra $1000 in pay. He also gets the intangible psychic rewards of being head honcho in Cambridge...
...international fuss over the powerfully muscled youth, actually a 4th century B.C. sculpture from Greece's Golden Age, is not the usual art dispute over authenticity. The experts agree that the graceful figure is either the only existing original work by the master sculptor Lysippus or, at least, from his school. At issue is whether the statue was smuggled illegally out of Italy and whether California's J. Paul Getty Museum, which acquired the statue earlier this year in London for $3.9 million, must pay a California sales tax or a Colorado use tax -or neither...