Word: piers
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...Provence with his partner, Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children, who speak French with a Provençal twang. He feels right at home in Europe where, he says, gifted people aren't pigeonholed. America has experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form...
...Sundays ago, I was in the Porter Square Dunkin Donuts because I had finished running errands in the area and was waiting for Pier One to open. I wanted to buy new cushions for the chairs in my room. Because I chose to sleep late, I hadn’t eaten at Cabot and was enjoying an egg and cheese and coffee while I made flashcards for Spanish Bab at a semi-frantic pace...
...would then sit back down and make flashcards, later rise and go to Pier One. I would feel awkward about purchasing these “nicer not necessary” pillows until the cashier informed me that my gift certificate was not $25 but $50. Triumphant, I would eventually arrive back to my room in Cabot with groceries for baking cookies (>$10), wall adhesive ($6), a flat-back garbage pail ($2), a full stomach ($4), two seat cushions and a throw pillow ($34), and a “nicer not necessary” bike helmet ($30). Later that...
...rainy Friday afternoon, Pier J. DeMarco ’03 unlocked her bike outside Sever Hall. She says that even on a Friday, it’s difficult to find a spot...
Pritzker, whose family is planning a $1.2 billion Fan Pier development in South Boston, noted that she might be helpful as the University looks to build a future campus across the Charles in Allston. Fergussen wrote broadly about her 16-year experience as a College president. Other candidates expressed support for University President Lawrence H. Summers’ goals of revamping undergraduate education, internationalization and sharpening the University’s focus on the issues of our time...