Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gone are the dormitory room popcorn poppers of the 1970s, even the mini microwave ovens of the '80s. Students these days are demanding serious meals to match their serious 18-hour workdays...
Today is just another day: coats zipped against the wind, readings furiously skimmed before section, the relentless click of e-mail and problem sets in the basement of the Science Center. There are papers due, office hours to go to, sleep that approaches unseen in the Lamont reading room or in lecture, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary. Another day, its stresses and triumphs, awakes to its own promise...
Katerina's story started, "The soldier has too many clothes," but she had no idea what to write next. The nine-year old wiggled in her chair in Vicky Valtaras' small dining room near Central Square, trying to come up with another sentence for her homework assignment. The nine-year old whined to her mother, Lowell House's principal dining hall card checker, "I don't know what to do!" Vicky calmly urged her to finish her work. "Just think about what it would feel like, and write something," she said. She spoke to her daughter with the same blunt...
...Vicky rents the first floor of a white, three-story house. There is a small front yard with bright orange flowers that a chain-link fence separates from the sidewalk. Photographs cover the walls in the living room. The pictures show relatives in formal Greek military uniform, several weddings and Katerina--infant photos, yearly school portraits and photos of her as a ballerina. "She stopped lessons last year. They're just too expensive," Vicky said. Katerina's bedroom is full of toys and other contraptions. "She has everything she'd ever need," Vicky said. "My dream is to take...
...people love monarchs and princes. If the British were to abolish the monarchy what would become of their tourist trade? Would elderly couples from the Midwest still stand in line to see the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace? Level-headed reasonableness and practicality sometimes advise compromise with imperfect institutions. And as far as imperfect institutions go, the monarchy is a fairly harmless...