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Quincy House: 1. Nicknamed “The People’s House” because of its scrumptious and (formerly) open access dining hall. 2. Convenient location, loud parties, hideous architecture. 3. Great late-night grill, which might some day reopen if its chimneys get de-gunked. 4. Home of the pimpest Masters’ Residence ever...
...first few weeks, my roommate and I were fastidiously polite with one another. “Good morning, Roxanne.” “Good morning, April.” “Is my alarm clock too loud for you?” “I’m sorry, but would you mind doing your laundry? It’s starting to spill over onto the floor...
...possible to see what I looked like? He lifted his hands and felt my face. My nose, he commented, wasn't especially big for a foreigner's. Chen was blinded by a fever as a small child. His hands--as well as an unusually supportive family that reads out loud to him everything from law books to letters from peasants requesting his legal aid--are what allow him to see the world...
...loose ends from the wave of prosecutions kicked off after the 2000 stock-market slump and the Enron meltdown. And some aren't as easy to wrap up as Quattrone's. Several British bankers, known in England as the NatWest Three, were hauled to Texas in July, after loud protests back home and a drawn-out extradition process. They face charges that they worked with ex-Enron CFO Andrew Fastow to siphon millions of dollars from a deal between their former employer, National Westminster Bank, and Enron. And in August, most of the convictions of four former Merrill Lynch executives...
...moved in 1986 to Japan, where he began his Projects for Extraterrestrials, artworks designed to be large and loud enough to communicate with outer space. Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, for example, laid a trail of fire more than six miles beyond the wall's western terminus. Another project, Transient Rainbow, celebrated the Museum of Modern Art's temporary relocation from Manhattan to Queens with a seven-color arc of fireworks over New York City's East River...