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...lights are out in the toddler room of the Botanic Gardens Children's Center, but as 4 p.m. approaches the quiet of naptime is broken by the snaps and zippers of preparation for recess on the snow-covered playground...
...Boston College, the concept of "feminism" has been reduced to the level of a fourth-grade playground Squabble. With all of the indignant righteousness normally reserved for young children and glassy-eyed absolutists, Professor Mary Daly asserted to the academic community last week that "the root of the mess in society is patriarchy." Turning away potential male students at the door with the words "you are not welcome here," Daly has decreed that no male students can enroll in her "Introduction to Feminist Ethics" course. Her contention is that their presence would constitute a distraction to female student engaged...
Roommates Aaron S. Montgomery 'OO and McComma Grayson 'OO met while playing a game of Red Light, Green light on the gravel playground of a Detroit elementary school. They knew each other as rivals from different homerooms-competitors in schoolyard pickup games like juice box football-but when homerooms ended in the fifth grade, this rivalry turned into friendship. Since then it's been happily ever after. "It sounds pathetic," Aaron confesses, "but we do have a lot of the same friends and we hang together. And a lot of times we know the same people but independent of each...
...Roommates Aaron S. Montgomery `00 and McComma Grayson `00 met while playing a game of Red Light, Green Light on the gravel playground of a Detroit elementary school. They knew each other as rivals from different homerooms--competitors in schoolyard pickup games like juice box football--but when homerooms ended in the fifth grade, this rivalry turned into friendship. Since then it's been happily ever after. "It sounds pathetic," Aaron confesses, "but we do have a lot of the same friends and we hang together. And a lot of times we know the same people but independent of each...
After three years of delays, the Corbetts got the go-ahead, and the first of 240 homes began going up. In the heart of the development, a day-care center and a small suite of offices were built. Nearby, a solar-heated pool and playground looked out on a vineyard. (A restaurant would come later.) The homes came in all types and sizes: traditional, modern, even four with sod roofs. There was virtually no restriction on style, but all had to use solar heating. And there was one iron commandment: Thou shalt not block thy neighbor...