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...choosing a thesis topic has proven more difficult than I had anticipated. No one topic seems very appealing for more than five minutes. Dreiser, for instance, is all too easily dismissed by Dorothy Parker’s acidly apt couplet, “Theodore Dreiser/ Should ought to write nicer.” And is affection for a cleverly-named sledgehammer really sufficient basis for a months-long project? Catholic (in the sense of ‘peripatetic’) interests have proved to be a liability in my search for a topic...
Hafner, Driver, Russell and Sifers all graduated from Taft in 2002 and were very close friends during their time there. “You couldn’t imagine a nicer kid than Peter Hafner, just so genuine,” said Sifers, who also played alongside Hafner on Taft’s lacrosse team. “We did the same sports, the same seasons, the same workouts. We were together all the time...
...rent is intentionally comparable to Harvard rent, with nicer rooms and better accommodations,” he said. “This is a more mainstream alternative to campus housing...
Several players made references to winning another title. “One was nice, two’s a lot nicer, but I need number three,” said quarterback Tom Brady, the two-time Super Bowl MVP who at 26 years old is the youngest quarterback ever to win two championships...
...says. "I had to separate from friends who went to another dorm because they couldn't all afford to live in Emerson." Some schools take steps to avoid such rifts. Michigan State charges the same fee for all dorms, regardless of extra frills. The University of Georgia awards nicer dorm rooms to students based on factors like grades and plans to start need-based scholarships to help poorer students pay for them...