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While I was staying with the Simpsons, Anna was busy knitting colorful squares. She handed me some needles and taught me to knit. Because I held my needles too tightly, my would-be square looked more like a parallelogram. At the end of my stay, Anna presented me with a hearty wool blanket knitted from the squares. With characteristic Shetlander modesty, she hesitated to honor my request for her to stitch her initials in the corner. "Oh, why would I do that?" she said, laughing. It was not as if I would forget where it came from. But I wanted...
...smaller classes have made for more closely knit sections and “a greater feel of community” she says...
...performance. “Sound Check (Gravity)” gloriously united Albarn’s wailing fallen-cherub falsetto and a gritty, turn-table led melody with an eerie, unsettling video. “Tomorrow Comes Today,” the band’s new single, knit together accelerated London cityscape footage to create a background for the band members. Yet in the end, the band reprised both “Clint Eastwood” and “Tomorrow Comes Today,” with slightly different video footage, for their encore, before Hewlett sent...
...subject of the Houses themselves, on the other hand, sparks no such consensus. There is a wide range of opinions and predictions regarding the role that Houses will play in the future. Chopra feels the loosely-knit House communities are still recovering from randomization. With the implementation of the lottery, facilities have to be equalized to “better reflect each House being a microcosm of the whole College...
...this apocalyptic landscape of blood-red rock and sulphur-colored plains, the pioneers hacked a difficult livelihood, struggling with biblical droughts, a plague of grasshoppers and overpowering summer heat. In other Western states such hardships bred a cantankerous individualism. In Utah the LDS church fostered a tightly knit communitarian approach. This lingers today in the "clannishness" that Hinckley criticized in his Pioneer Day speech, and has led to the polarization of society that persists even as much else in the state is changing...