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Thirty years ago, before family, jobs, and graduation, Jody and her roommates got a letter, early one morning, saying that they’d be living in Mather House together for the next three years. It was the worst thing that could have happened to them, some of them thought: Mather with its new architecture and ugly towers. You had to walk so far to class. Their seventh choice out of twelve. But it all turned out fine, they said—they loved it. Things worked...
...quote, it is Housing Day, and we see the depressed reactions of the freshmen, who have not received an envelope with Eliot House scribbled inside. Their reactions range from shock to dread, all the way to tears. A new Kirkland resident even goes so far as to push their letter back under the door...
...Europe acting like a jilted lover. French press reported that Sarkozy was forced to console an upset Merkel ahead of the Wall ceremony by painting Obama as a distant being whose presence would not be missed. "If you make a really big effort, he'll send you a letter," Sarkozy said, according to newsweekly Le Point. "And if you get on your knees, he'll add 'Yours Truly' in his own writing." (See pictures from Obama's overseas trips...
Many graduate student parents learned of the decision to end the scholarship on Tuesday when a parent applying for the scholarship—which offers up to $5,000—forwarded a letter across an email list of student parents explaining that the scholarship had been...
...policies and stripping the bill of sweetheart deals for individual Senators, such as the now infamous "Cornhusker kickback" that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson arranged to exempt his state from having to pay additional costs for expanding Medicaid. One possibility under discussion would have at least 51 Senators signing a letter promising to uphold their end of the bargain. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...