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...tape and regulations, he finally convinced Harvard to let him room with his four female blockmates.While women first lived alongside men in Harvard houses in the 1970s, the College has never allowed coed rooms beyond a case-by-case basis. Even then, students must meet requirements, such as locks on every door. Since room configurations vary and permission depends on the whims of House masters, applying for coed rooming is often a crap shoot with notoriously low odds. Magnuson got lucky.This year, Magnuson and his four female roommates moved into the Mather Tower with a private bathroom and single bedrooms...
...bank robbers come barging into the bank manager's home, take everybody hostage and order Dad to pop the safe at the branch office. But there's a time lock on the vault, which can not be overridden. That permits everyone to hang around in the living room, getting to know one another while the miscreants eat all the Wheaties. Eventually, Dad proves to be not quite the doofus he seems to be, the plot is foiled, and bourgeois order is restored to 79 Wistful Vista Drive...
...journey. "Just very tired." After he arrived, it took only a few weeks for his English-speaking uncle to find him a job in an auto-repair shop and a room to rent. Octavio now lives in a single-family home that got the illegal immigrant makeover: slap a lock on every bedroom and try to squeeze in as many families and workers as possible. He pays $500 a month to share his home with eight other workers he doesn't know and barely trusts...
...expects Austria "will do anything and everything to keep" the golden portrait of Adele. She anticipates negotiations will begin in the next few weeks. But Austrians who came to view the paintings for what they feared would be one last time were sadly disappointed. The museum had to lock them away after Altmann's lawyer received an e-mail threatening to destroy the pictures rather than let such national treasures leave their native land. adieu adele!ran one headline. adieu, golden klimt!read another. No matter what Altmann ultimately decides, Vienna is already mourning the loss of a beloved icon...
...certain events that leave their mark on pop culture, there comes a flashpoint when everyone's talking about the same thing. Call it the Bennifer blitz, the Monica moment, the Janet Jackson distraction. Ground down and fed up by news that matters, Americans lock their vision on a movie-star romance, a sex scandal, a Super Bowl oops as tabloid headlines and talk-show hosts exploit and orchestrate the public's evanescent fervor...