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...Afro-American department, and all of my teachers are in the Barker Center," says Rodney M. Glasgow '01. "It gives us a locus of concentration. It makes it really easy to get in touch with people when they're all right there...
After hiring several consulting companies to study my work habits, I determined that the locus of lowest efficiency in my life was my computer, where I often sit for hours pretending to write papers while actually checking e-mail repeatedly...
Mott Street in Little Italy, Manhattan's newest locus of hip, is where modish factions of the young professional class gather in cafes to talk about movies starring Steve Buscemi and to chain-smoke as though it were Milan or 1956. Mott Street is, in other words, a place you might envision as fashion's capital of spartan black. On a northern tip, though, sits a tiny 1 1/2-year-old shop named Calypso, where, on any given weekend, stylish young shoppers slither past one another to get at a collection of near-sheer pastel sweaters, lacy skirts, candy-colored coats...
...offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park day of driving, staring at Visitor Center displays, and photographing rock formations with names like "Pirate's Skull" under our belt, we proceeded to that locus of unique inter-generational experiences--Leisure World, home to Abby's grandmother and 22,000 other Californians over the age of fifty-five...
...community, that has been and continues to be mobilized through its churches for political activity. Among the most striking examples are the voting drives in the late '50s and the Civil Rights movement in the '60s and arguably through the early '70s, but the black church has been the locus for the political mobilization of African Americans since its inception...