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...became part of the community that Erving Goffman describes in his book Asylums. One student still tells anecdotes about the people he met. Another said. "You could have great times there. People sat around reading I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There were some great tall-tale tellers...
Before then, Harry would have had his headline-war or Armageddon notwithstanding. In Romy's heyday, foreign affairs meant DIPLOMAT FOUND IN LOVE NEST! In recent years, however, Chicago newspapers have expanded their serious coverage of national and international news; now they tend to bury all but the most sensational crime stories in the back pages or, more often, the wastebasket. "Police-beat news," explains one Daily News rewrite man, "is what runs on a dull...
...taxes do more than anything else to shape man's environment. "I'm more than upset," he says, "at how badly real estate taxes have been misused over the years. It's like peeling an onion-you take away layer after layer and uncover an interconnected nest of unintended social and economic evils. And federal taxes simply compound these evils...
...were with honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note, the owl and the pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much as a fiver to her instructor...
...class of '80, is Harvard's one famous boxer. For years he was the one name Harvard men could hold up to taunts that Cambridge was a nest of "Haavaad fairies." And today, two pairs of his gloves hang immortalized over in Henry Lamar's office in the IAB above some pictures of the boxing teams Henry coached here...