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Thus, once freshmen moved into their Houses, they would profit from the stronger community created by pre-assignment. It would be possible, for example, for a newly-minted sophomore to walk into her House dining hall and actually recognize her neighbors. Without pre-assignment, such a tight-knit atmosphere is a fantasy...
...chairs of all shapes and sizes--typically of beech and oak wood--for offices, homes, hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made 1 of every 3 chairs sold. The demand provided ample work for a tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones, a district with virtually full employment and a chronic shortage of skilled labor. "We were the China of Europe," boasts Giulio Fanin...
...waste of time and money; soon the great naval shipyards in Nanjing had been broken up, and China retreated into a self-absorbed attitude of mind that it would not lose for half a millennium. It's a cautionary note, a reminder that the waves of trade that knit us together can ebb as well as flow. There is a famous passage in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written by John Maynard Keynes in 1920, which every student of globalization knows by heart. Keynes describes life as it existed in 1914, when a man in London could travel...
...such a struggle to figure out a group.”“The neighborhooding did help a lot,” Kyra A Hill ’09 said, but added that it was painful “classifying your friends” into either a close-knit blocking group or an outer-circle linking group.With housing assignments a little more than a week away, other freshmen have seen the blocking experience as an opportunity to express their artistic talent. “The tight-knit groups are fighting too because they got to with fringe friends pushing...
...Harvard College. Perhaps meant to evoke the image of a quaint, tight-knit liberal arts collegium in the pastoral beauty of rural New England? If Harvard’s COFHE scores are about nothing so much as nomenclature, this should clearly do the trick...