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Harvard knitters often knit on the sly; it's a hush-hush type of deal. Harvard's female population has spent its recent months slowly but surely converting into a caucus of avid knitters. Or perhaps they have always been knitting, and here is some evidence...
...only do these Harvard knitters knit on the sly as an exclusive activity with inherent social guidelines, but they do each other's knitting, with no apparent purpose. Product, therefore, is not the bottom line; the activity itself is the purpose, with product as an added bonus...
...where she feels welcome, she says. But it is also a place where she has remained almost entirely Portuguese, enabling her not to be forced to venture outside of her tight-knit community and even allow her to get by without ever learning English...
...Westchester County ("I had two turkey lunches, but no dinner")--he runs upstairs to his room at the tiny Governor's Inn to change out of his blue suit; it's the only one he has in Tallahassee, and it has started to rain. Fond of Lands' End tailoring, knit ties and cheap watches, Boies quickly returns in a gray tweed wool jacket, which, for the rest of the day, he pulls over his head to stay dry, as if an umbrella might slow him down. He feels the same way about briefcases and legal pads. As best...
...eldest of nine children, I've spent most of my life rounding up unruly siblings--for dinner when we were little, for special occasions now that we live in five different states--and I have the phone bills to prove it. You might think our close-knit clan would benefit from one of the many free group e-mail services available on the Internet. You might think they would save us time and money and headaches, since a single posting can take the place of serial e-mails or toll calls, spreading the word about who needs a ride...