Word: reading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student feedback cards, explains Alixandra E. McNitt, HUDS associate director for communications and marketing, are read by as many as 19 managers in HUDS' headquarters, as well as managers in each House. Their student feedback system is so responsive that it has won awards including a national customer service award from Food Management Magazine...
Bathroom habits present another set of issues. At school, I have become accustomed to reading the newspapers strewn across the floor of the bathroom stall so that I may learn something new while using the facilities. After all, at a prestigious intellectual institution like Harvard, even dropping the kids off at the pool (if you know what I mean) should be an academic pursuit. By the same token, whenever I bring a newspaper into the bathroom with me, I am generous enough to leave it on the floor for others to read. The result is a free, thriving library...
...Washington Irving's classic ghost story of the Headless Horseman provides merely a jumping off point for Burtons dark imaginings. For those who have not read the book or watched the Disney cartoon, the traditional tale is set in Sleepy Hollow, a small New York suburb, in 1799. A headless horseman haunts the outskirts of the town and chops off people's heads in revenge for having lost his own --or so goes the rumor in town. When lanky, schoolteaching Ichabod Crane comes to town, alienating the locals with his intellectual pretentiousness, he scoffs at the legend and further ruffles...
...Didn't Celine Dion say she was going to semi-retire for two years? Doesn't that mean from all public view? We don't want books, we don't want CD's (she just released another one!), we don't want to hear your voice or read your words for 730 days. Capiche...
...that's useful on the Internet, where we gravitate to those who are politically opinionated and even sensationalist, people like Drudge have a harder time surviving in the more limited realm of mass media." So Drudge, who harnessed a new medium to climb from gift shop clerk to columnist read by millions in a matter of years, retreats to the Web. There he has final edit on his Drudge Report site, the only criticisms come via e-mail, and "delete" is just a keystroke away...