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Starting again wasn't easy, though, and I would have ended up as the Perpetual Other if I hadn't made a conscious effort not to. I lived in off-campus overflow housing for a few months and couldn't move into the dorm system until the beginning of junior year. I roamed from comp to comp before winding up as design editor at The Crimson. Even now, most of the people I know at Harvard are Crimson editors, gov jocks, ec nerds, Russophiles or transfers...
Plans for a massive library beneath the lawn between 17 Quincy St. and Lamont library were in the news by the mid-1960s. Pusey library, which contains overflow books from Widener and the University archives and map collection, was completed in 1973. It is named in honor of the former president...
...anticipation of the announcement, an overflow crowd had crammed into the meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington last week, and they were not disappointed. "If you're religious, it's like looking at God," proclaimed the leader of the research team, George Smoot, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel, who had recently co-authored a theory that was demolished by the COBE results, cheerily admitted, "We're dead. But this is great stuff . . . It's the most important discovery in cosmology in the past 20 years...
...wants to invite more people than there are tickets for. This requires Theo to get on the phone to scrounge up more tickets, while the family exchanges wisecracks about the last time Dad brought too many people to a graduation (he set up lawn chairs for the overflow...
...soft-spoken author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women told an overflow audience of 500 that the popular media and reactionary politicians have launched an "insidious attack" on women's rights...