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...study commissioned the previous spring that recommended consistent maintenance and repair to preserve the historic buildings, which, until the 50th anniversary of the undergraduate House system in 1981, had not received either. The neglect of the Houses was apparent in the overheated rooms, poor plumbing, and peeling paint, The Crimson reported...
...years. Though the area is still desperately poor, the signs of revival are evident. People make their way about the streets with seeming confidence; the dilapidated market street is open, displaying a wide array of colorful goods; and some buildings gleam with newly completed restorations and coats of fresh paint...
...reward, Meera, already four months along, aborts. Suri's description of the procedure, in a scuzzy room above a bathroom-fixtures shop, is macabre and grating, but typical of his hyper-realistic prose, which animates the best parts of the novel with its frankness. "Scabs of green paint were peeling off the wall and ceiling," and a "strong meaty odor, like that from a fatty cut of mutton boiled in a curry, emanated from the door...
...compatriots to recognize their own missteps in confronting the abortion issue. "As positions on both sides of this debate have hardened the past three decades, they have also grown more distant from the lives of everyday people," she told the audience [italics hers]. "The slogans and bumper stickers that paint this issue in black and white no longer touch the profound complexity most people feel on the issue of abortion...
...whom the district brought in from retirement last May to oversee the transition. "There's a kind of free-floating anxiety." For the moment, Priebe-Diaz, the intervention leader, is working to encourage teachers to put those differences behind them and focus on healing. "Just because you change the paint on the walls doesn't take away the historical problems that have been happening here," says Priebe-Diaz, who wants to give the new management strategies to encourage interracial dialogue. "Will it be easy? No. Will it happen overnight? No," she says. "But there is always hope...