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...study together and eat together. Everyone now gets to meet many more people of the opposite sex. In these meetings there is less pressure, less artificiality—you can be yourself. I remember weekend dates brought into the dining hall to stand in line for dinner, running a gauntlet of leering envy or contempt. There is more informality now; students have fewer dates but go out in groups. Girls don’t sit by their telephones waiting for a call. One of them might even call you. This is good...
...study together and eat together. Everyone now gets to meet many more people of the opposite sex. In these meetings there is less pressure, less artificiality—you can be yourself. I remember weekend dates brought into the dining hall to stand in line for dinner, running a gauntlet of leering envy or contempt. There is more informality now; students have fewer dates but go out in groups. Girls don’t sit by their telephones waiting for a call. One of them might even call you. This is good...
Much of the negativity stems from an insane gauntlet Crowe ran at the onset of fame, when, in short order, he had to deal with a highly publicized affair with Meg Ryan; rumored (and denied) trysts with Courtney Love, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman and Sarah Ferguson; countless apparent losses of temper; and a kidnapping threat serious enough that he needed a dozen security escorts with him on the night he won his Oscar. Crowe did not handle any of this particularly well. Instead of expressing amused bewilderment at the peculiarity of fame--a strategy Colin Farrell has perfected...
Naturally, he chose a Harvard man, and Kevin Sneddon ’92 is off to a fine start. The Cats have been competitive against a season-opening Hockey East gauntlet (BC, BU, UNH), have a bona-fide scorer (Jeff Miles) and appear to have the answer in goal (Travis Russell). On top of that, these Cats play hard. And our man Sneddy coaches hard. This is a good fit. Expect improvement...
With negotiations heating up between the city and its labor force, including teachers, police and firefighters, Mayor Bloomberg threw down the gauntlet last month at a meeting of the Municipal Labor Committee, saying that there would be no pay increases for the city’s workers without productivity increases. This comment comes as part of a proud tradition of comments from the Bloomberg administration concerning the productivity of city workers that started with Deputy Mayor Marc V. Shaw’s calls last year to close several firehouses and his comment that city firefighters were inefficient because they only...