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...climed back in the car and followed my dad’s inner compass down the hill where the road emptied into a village. We bounced slowly over the cobblestones of the street, beginning to get the feeling that cars weren’t big in town. Three older Italian men in suspenders, who were tanned the color of leather from the boiling Calabrian sun, sat playing chess under the awning of a caffé while sipping espresso and motioning with their hands. Every one of them was the spitting image of my grandfather, though he?...
...considerable extent simply another tool used by publishers and textbook authors to maintain their revenue stream, that is, to keep up prices,” Stock wrote in an e-mailed statement.He said that while he requires his own book for his class, he encourages students to buy older editions and international copies, and said one student bought a Korean copy for 15 percent of the domestic list price.“Some new editions really do make substantial intellectual improvements, but I would suggest that is the exception not the rule,” Stock said.In certain fields, professors...
...impact of the weather is difficult to predict. Clinton typically performs better among older voters and senior citizens, who may be more likely to stay home in inclement weather. On the other hand, Obama's fortunes depend on his ability to recruit and mobilize his own grassroots base that is independent of the Democratic Party establishment, which in Ohio has largely supported Clinton. Whether he can mobilize his effective Get Out the Vote machine in such terrible conditions remains to be seen...
...keep the venues functioning after the departure of a particularly instrumental tutor or the graduation of a student organizer.When David J. Tischfield ’09 took over the Quincy House pottery studio, the facility hadn’t been used in several semesters.“An older woman ran the studio for years up until around four years ago when she had kids and gave up the responsibility,” he says. “It just sat there and collected dust until last spring when I started teaching classes there again.”Though...
...Wright says. Wright chose to capitalize on the actors’ natural qualities, not the least of which is their youth. She expects these choices to make this a distinctive production of the widely performed play. “Sister Aloysius has been played, I think, usually as much older than we’re playing her in this play,” Wright says. “But Marielle [E. Woods ’08], who’s playing that part, brings a new kind of strength to it and a new kind of vigor. Alex [R. Breaux...