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Q. You went to their homes. They took you places, introduced you to other gang members, to their parents, their parole officers. They showed you their AK-47s and Uzis. They told you their dreams. They told you about murders they had committed. Did you ever invite them to your...
Although the 1992 Harvard women's hockey season ended with a forgettable 7-1 drubbing by Dartmouth, the curtain had already closed on Harvard (10-10 overall) when the ECAC neglected to invite the Crimson to its post-season tournament.
Among the suspects is Lilian Meservey, the jeep-driving town manager, who plans to build riverside condos. On the other hand, muckraking Monty wants to invite in the Environmental Protection Agency and turn everything into low-income housing. Whooten, Adele's architect, has different dreams of an underground museum and...
Similarly, classical record companies trade in a commodity that is aggressively marketed as "highculture", occasionally making condescending gestures to the uninitiate masses in the form of "classical compilations" or "greatest hits" albums. Theirs is the currency of snobbery, calculated to impress rather than to invite.
In his new incarnation as a drifter, Kreimer became something of a local fixture. High school friends would invite him into their homes for a shower and shave. When it was too frigid to spend the night in the fields near a new condominium development, he would take the train...