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What is a consequential stranger? If you look at the relationship continuum from stranger to soul mate, consequential strangers fall in that vast territory just beyond strangers and just short of friends. When people say they have 765 friends on Facebook, most of them are consequential strangers. Your hairdresser is probably a consequential stranger. Your lawyer may be. The person who comes in to clean your house and who has been doing it for 30 years might be a close consequential stranger. But you also have a lot of people on the periphery: the nice woman in accounting whom...
...step programs fit into this? Oh, absolutely. [That's] what sociologists call a single-stranded relationship. It's around an activity, a place - we know [people] from the coffee shop or the gym. We know them because we stuff envelopes with them at a fundraiser. And so AA is very much like that. They're all there trying to heal, and you quickly get to a very, very deep level of exposure because you're talking about your personal life. But once you go home, you may speak with these people on the phone, you may meet them for coffee...
...together with great passion and patience.” The pieces in the Just collection were originally indexed by filmmaker and subdivided into films, Guest said, and the HFA has decided to keep that system. The gift continues more than a decade of Lothar Just’s philanthropic relationship with Harvard, who began working with Germanic Languages and Literature Professor Eric Rentschler in the 1990s to help obtain several hundred 35-millimeter German feature films for Harvard’s collection from the Film and Television Board of Bavaria in cooperation with German directors and producers. Just approached Rentschler...
...stole him from MIT, but the schools have a very good relationship,” Walsh said...
Harvard spokesman Kevin Galvin, who often handles labor relations inquiries, wrote in an e-mailed statement that University negotiators are “proud” of their relationship with HUCTW, and that they hope for “productive” conversations with “the people who help to make [Harvard] one of the world’s premier institutions...