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Harvard-Yale weekend is traditionally "an event" because it allows students to revel in collegiate life for a weekend and to see why the Ivy League universities are known as the best academic institutions in the nation. This year the sense of adventure was lacking--in part because the Ivy League was caught up in making history...
...goes back to the desire to nest, to revel in the comforts of home--priorities that have come to define the 1990s. And it's why coffeemakers that automatically grind the beans before brewing will get more attention this year than they have in the past. Our standards are higher, and we're ready to upgrade. The result is a kitchen that's more Jetsons than Julia Child...
...Yorkers have never been more bored with politics. Love him or hate him (and indeed, most New Yorkers revel in doing one or the other), Mayor Giuliani has succeeded: he has transformed New York City from a dysfunctional mess into a community worthy of emulation. Indeed, the consensus among public policy analysts seems to be that Giuliani's program should be diligently studied as a "how-to guide" for urban renewal. To make matters worse for those who enjoy a good political brawl, the Mayor's opponent, Ruth W. Messinger '62, seems to give new meaning to the word "colorless...
Burton likes to think about heaven. He might even be said to revel in it. Oddly enough, he has had to struggle to think about it or at least to find fellow believers and pastors whom his thoughts don't embarrass. And more oddly still, his struggle is not unique. It began about 14 years ago, when Burton, then attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, converted from his childhood Southern Baptist faith to Catholicism. For the most part, the switch suited him fine. The Baptists were a little too easygoing for him; he preferred the Catholic view that...
...perhaps most important, I turned in my thesis last Friday. When I began the process last spring, I was interested in my topic of a southern California architect cast as a historical Progressive, but I was not looking forward to all the research. And, as expected, I did not revel in every one of the hundreds of hours I spent poring over books, articles, and archives...