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...houses were created as contained unified communities, according to Benjamin H. Walcott, the assistant director of Harvard Dining Services. "The House system isn't the most efficient way to feed the number of people we serve--it would be better to have four Unions--but Harvard was designed to be an experience, and the dining environment is an integral part of that experience," Walcott says...
...creepy, it's unnatural," says Norman Gholson '88. "I'm not interested in being romantic with someone who isn't a friend of mine." Adds Mike Eilperin '90, "I'd be afraid of the type of people who respond...
Dreamtime isn't that interesting musically, either. The Stranglers have the synthesized textures and technical polish of Ultravox or the Human League, but they lack those bands' ability to give their songs the pop melodies and hooks that keep listeners from forgetting the songs immediately after hearing them. In other words, most of this music is pleasant and unobtrusive enough to be perfectly in place in a dentist's office...
...White House from the Hub was even greater. Biographer Goodwin navigates it swiftly. Like other historians, she finds the elder Kennedy's fingerprints all over the political controls. "It was like being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...
...staying at home just isn't special enough for some people, like R. Cliff Young '89. "We'd go to Paris on the Concorde and spend the night, which is the afternoon here, have dinner, walk along the Seine and then go out dancing. Then we'd fly back to New York and do the same thing," Young says...