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...Leizer whether she thinks Redd can be Miss America. “I’ve been here for two weeks,” she says. “I’m about to go upstairs and paint Nancy’s toenails. I don’t even paint my own toenails. Do you think I’d do that if I didn’t think she could be Miss America...
Mather’s singles would seem a lot less dingy if the carpet wasn’t fraying and vomit-stained. The folks in Currier House might not resent the long walk back to the Quad as much if they had a freshly-painted room to come home to. Even Adams could use a little renovation—in Dartboard’s room there’s only one internet jack conveniently located in Dartboard’s roommate’s bedroom. By slapping up a new coat of paint here and there, replacing cracked tiles...
...will balk at the costs. All Dartboard asks is that they take a little tour of Wellesley’s dorms. That adorable little school seems able to carry out major renovations in their buildings every few years; their carpet is clean, their bathroom tiles are whole and the paint on their walls isn’t peeling off. That’s funny, Dartboard doesn’t remember hearing about Wellesley’s $18 billion endowment…must not have been paying attention...
Adjaye covered the building in a deep brown paint with a stucco-like surface so tough that the British use it to defend utility boxes from graffiti. It turned the house into a mammoth minimalist sculpture, a formidable box that occupies its corner lot with the weight and density of an anvil. Yet seen at close range, the paint is still translucent enough to disclose the lines where successive stages of new brickwork were added over the years, sedimentary layers of the building's history. "I want you to be able to read the story of the place," Adjaye says...
...conservative Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, who had spent $2.96 million to get the recall (and himself) on the ballot. But soon after Schwarzenegger got in the race, Issa bowed out, leaving Davis with an opponent who not only has star power but also will be far more difficult to paint as a tool of the right wing. In fact, it could be difficult to attach any labels at all to Schwarzenegger. What do you call an advocate of fiscal discipline who sponsored a successful 2002 ballot measure that requires spending more than $400 million on after-school programs...