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...Schlesinger Library, housing books belonging to the Radcliffe Institute for Women’s Studies, looks like the typical Harvard building—brick facade, windows with quaint, white trim, colonial architecture—but the Schlesinger Library is also way better than any other Harvard institution. Because the Schlesinger library is the proud keeper of hot, hot, hot lesbian pornography magazines...
...activities now carefully enumerated on so many hallowed sheets of paper are insignificant, that the sites carefully marked on maps are not worth seeing. Indeed, my fellow students have done a remarkably thorough job of teasing out the centers and squares, the parks and plazas, the quirks and quaint spots that differentiate Boston from all other cities. Instead I offer the humble suggestion that perhaps we ought not be preoccupied with checking off every listing in the Unofficial Guide. Perhaps we are not responsible for seeing what makes Boston unique, but instead are responsible for making our experiences unique...
...craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room workshops, barbershops, tobacconists and tanneries, has been revamped and gentrified, gracefully. Humble huts are now trendy ouzerí and cafés. Warehouses have become fashionable nightclubs. Neoclassical buildings with gateways on to verdant courtyards have been converted to stylish galleries and quaint tavernas. That uneasy coexistence between the district's old and new, its mix of shabby and swish, is the area's most lively feature. Look behind the designer glitz...
...have neighbors in Livingston, Mont., who have geared up for every potential Armageddon since the Cuban missile crisis. From the cold war to the Gulf War to Y2K (how quaint it seems now, that odd abbreviation), a certain vocal minority hereabouts has been hoarding ammunition, boiling water and stockpiling gold coins in hopes of riding out some vast calamity that will devastate the unprepared while leaving savvy country folk untouched. That was the vision, at least, until last month, when the attacks on New York City and Washington proved to all but the most stubborn of mountain dwellers that that...
...supposed to have a Junior Common Room where students can gather to read, socialize and meet in an informal setting. These beautiful, frequently wood-paneled rooms are the sort of places Harvard plasters over its brochures, enticing naïve applicants with dreams of endless intellectual discourse in quaint, posh settings. In reality, however, most Junior Common Rooms are not hangout havens, but overflow rehearsal space. They are usually booked well in advance by homeless a cappella groups and roving theater productions...