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...banned in all Yard dormitories in September of 1997 (though still permitted in upperclass Houses), students found themselves faced with a simple choice. They could sit in the dark, eat large quantities of carrots or develop previously nonhuman powers of sonar detection and echolocation to get around their abysmally lit rooms...
Usually (I don't know why) I see an unhappy woman who has drunk herself to sleep. The lit cigarette, which she thought she placed in the ashtray from the Stork Club, has rolled off the night table toward the chintz curtains. She dreams of the man she loved long ago and of a blazing fireplace. The dream is vivid. She can even smell the smoke...
...insides of Boylston are, literally, as different as night and day. "It was really dark and cavernous-looking before," recalls Classic concentrator Joshua Mann '00. The dingy, poorly-lit hallways on the upper floors have been rearranged, and the rather grey ground floor has been redecorated. Bright colors and unfinished wood permeate every aspect of the new decor. Walls throughout the building sport colors ranging from light beige to olive green and burnt orange. Sunlight reaches nearly every room, and in addition to the lighting in classrooms and offices, lights along interior hallways even illuminate the ceiling. The study carrels...
...second day of his back-to-space voyage, the man who is ostensibly a humble payload specialist continues to get more attention from the planet below him than all other shuttle astronauts, past and present, put together. The city of Perth in Western Australia, nostalgic about the night it lit up for Glenn?s Friendship 7 fly-by, decided to go one brighter. The grand old spaceman saw their luminous display for about five minutes, and pronounced it better than 1962: "They?ve really got them lit up tonight," Glenn said. So wrapped up was the Ohio senator, he mistakenly...
...night began with pregame fireworks, then both offenses lit it up through the air on first-quarter drives...