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...Reasoning TF, try sending a polite but pointed e-mail first. A general e-mail directed to your entire entryway or floor will avoid coming across as a personal attack; just mention that the noise has been an issue and you require relative quiet for your thesis/sanity/orgy/whatever. A simple request for quiet should be effective, since most people realize that this is Harvard and not State U. At best, you’ll get an apology and things will quiet down, at worst you’ll be ignored, and the noise will continue. If the latter is the case...
...atrocious policies of the Khartoum government.“The three months after the Olympics was just a crush of activity, so I was literally in four or five cities a week, every week, for three months,” he says. “You take every media [request], you take every speaking engagement, you take any chance to meet with anyone you can, because you have such a limited lifespan—such a limited shelf life.”After the Games, Cheek went on a college tour, traveling to campuses to create awareness about Darfur...
...feminine-leaning smell wouldn't scare off men. (A male exec had suggested a drop of bourbon, but it was decided that cedarwood would provide a similar yet subtler tone.) Then, sitting around a conference table strewn with perfumer's blotter paper, the execs had a final request: Could the orange be snazzier, more of a blood orange? ScentAir dug into its library of about 40 orangey smells, weeding out the tangerine-tinged and the clementine-clad before hitting the jackpot with a robustly bloody red orange...
...joint concentrator in music and linguistics, and I plan on getting a citation in French. As such, I’ve needed (well, wanted) my share (well, more than my share) of Core requirement readjustments, special exemptions, and the like. All told, I filed three separate requests for adjustments of some kind to the Core office, and I’ve been granted every last one, in writing, and in a somewhat timely fashion. The key is to remember that those ogres only have as much power over you and your curriculum as you let them have. Get your concentration...
...Still, my friend's cautious request for a wingman that evening seemed appropriate. We appreciated Foley's bonhomie and interest in doing business. But we wanted to just be friends. When I saw that first batch of e-mails between Foley and a young page, recollections of that spring barbeque left me convinced that the story would get worse before it got better...