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...laundry room is ideal, homeowners are finding, for consolidating activities previously scattered throughout the house. In the Vero Beach, Fla., house that Barbara and Chester Irons are building, the laundry room will feature professional-grade fixtures, including two sinks, a drip-dry area, a rotary pressing machine, a pressure ironing board and a sewing table--not to mention stations for crafts, gift wrapping and potting plants. "I'm not trying to create a huge, superfluous room," says Barbara Irons. "When you look at historic houses, they had all sorts of rooms for maintaining the house--the mudroom, the butler...
...none of these solutions were ideal. Jennifer G. Altarriba ’03, HRTV’s president, explains the difficulty in drawing large audiences even through webcasts: “We are Harvard students. We want instant gratification.” Webcasts involve too many steps and are too time-consuming to watch, she says...
Unionization! The word strikes fear into the hearts of administrators. Yet it seems doubtful that Harvard’s graduate students will ever unionize. Even though graduate study at Harvard hardly resembles the pedagogical ideal, it is not the bottom of the heap, either. Rumor has it that we are paid somewhat better than our peers at many other universities, and a little extra cash can go a long way to quelling discontent. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) administration has made great improvements in the financial packages awarded to incoming students, which also takes some...
...definitely not the ideal conditions, but we’ve played in worse,” Shaughnessy said...
...standard. Municipal authorities, often known for laxity or petty corruption, must recognize the life-threatening importance of their work and strive to establish and enforce adequate and sensible building codes, particularly in buildings open for public use. Western European standards for such buildings are often cited as being nearly ideal, and should be investigated for our own potential adoption...