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Third, the general anonymity that comes with attending a 6,000-person school isn't nearly as strong at 6'2". People recognize me. Any physical trait that differs from the norm makes a person easily noticeable, and extreme height is the most easily identifiable of all. From my lofty perch, I stick out in a crowd; my taste for brightly colored clothing only adds to the phenomenon. Visibility can be a distinctly negative trait when trying to blend in with a group during the middle school years or when movie-hopping (I get caught). But visibility has its positive...
...exact. This creates difficulties in the dating department, where tall men like to date unnecessarily short women and short men seem to be all the rage this decade. After subtracting for irreconcilable personality differences and bad hairdos, I'm left with two Harvard men who meet the necessary height and intellect requirements; one is currently seeing another woman, and the other is taking a semester abroad...
...Orleans pressuring them to support campaign-finance reform. Public-interest groups, hoping to hold the Louisianans and others to past promises, are dredging up newsclips in which the lawmakers are quoted as saying they will vote for McCain's bill. To switch now "would truly be the height of hypocrisy," says Matt Keller, Common Cause's deputy legislative director. But even if they're shamed into sticking with McCain, many Democrats secretly hope Bush will veto the bill. Politicians lie awake at night worrying about survival, not hypocrisy...
Most sketch artists ask witnesses to examine drawings or photographs meant to jog their memories. But that process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...
...years ago, a city-wide growth management commission identified five problematic transition zones in Cambridge--or areas in which the allowable height restrictions under current zoning in a certain area is incongruent with the zoning in surrounding areas...