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Party suites and river views aren’t the only criteria by which to pick a room. One must also consider the secrets that the room’s four walls might conceal, some of which have sparked age-old myths and rumors that still manage to frighten residents today. Eliot has always had a reputation of housing Harvard’s elite, but rumor has it that its residents haven’t always received the royal treatment. “I heard that in Eliot, you have to sleep in the servants’ quarters...
...those expecting to see buzzards circling overhead will be surprised. As quickly as one myth dies, another rises in its place, and Joseph is an oracle. It's when you buy that determines what money you make, he tells the fortune hunters on his bus. "A scary time? I'd say it's an opportunity. But it wouldn't be an opportunity if it weren't a scary time," he says. The speculators are back - but they've changed; he has investors up North who are buying houses sight unseen, for cash. (The conditions? No mold, no Chinese drywall...
...Rodoreda chooses to pitch her tent so deliberately close to that of other writers. The allegory of Rodoreda’s novel is glaringly reminiscent of its more renowned contemporary, J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Whereas Coetzee uses myth to provide an account of nobility in the midst of brutality—itself a critique of South African apartheid—Rodoreda’s rootless fantasy world communicates comparatively little of Coetzee’s allegorical power. Through the unnamed narrator, Rodoreda implements an emotionally stripped style...
...About seven years after Microsoft's stock hit an all-time high, Google traded at $747, its peak. It now changes hands at $348, and if the company's sales can only grow at 10% or 15%, the stock is not going back above $700, ever. The myth about companies like Microsoft and Google is that what they do is so important to business and consumers and so pervasive that the growth curve never flattens out. It does flatten at every company. No exceptions...
Leslie Morgan Steiner would seem to have it all worked out. She has degrees from Ivy League schools, a long stint under her belt as a columnist for the Washington Post and a bestselling anthology, Mommy Wars, which took on the feminine work- life balance myth by embracing the fact that most women's jobs and lives will never be perfect. But her successful present belies a haunting past: In her new memoir, Crazy Love, Steiner reveals how she fell in love with and married a man who beat her regularly and nearly killed her. TIME spoke to Steiner about...