Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe the problems facing both groups and the larger campus community can be alleviated. The Student Group-House Affiliation proposal which is presently being brought to the Masters asks that each House donate one room as a student group office. In order to operate, many student group leaders say that their organization needs only a filing cabinet, a phone line and a computer. By outfitting the student group offices with these amenities, resources could be shared among the groups, helping to ensure the survival of many valuable undergraduate organizations...
Established in the late 1940s, Cafe Pamplona has been an arty haven for tortured souls of Cambridge for over 50 years. Offering authentic southern Spanish cuisine and potent coffee concoctions, the Pamp, as the regulars affectionately say, brings cultural flair to Cambridge. Flaunting a pastiche of old world southern Spanish design and industrial chic, the one-room subterranean establishment boasts cement walls accented by hot water pipes suspended from the ceiling. Small black lacquered tables clutter the single-roomed cafe as tortured writers sit enraptured in their favorite author's prose. In the back kitchen, two or three waify waiters...
...Disparaging consultants should be easy by comparison. Consider: Investment bankers spend 18 hours a day entering numbers into spreadsheets. They "analyze data" and "run regressions." Consultants "work in teams" and "brainstorm." They figure out how to "streamline" and "trim the fat." "Let's get back to basics," they might say, pointing to a 3-D pie chart on their PowerPoint presentation. It was as though the Starr report had just come out and everyone was smoking cigars. And I couldn't think of a single sarcastic thing to say...
...That's enough for us," I say. But before we can triple the sixth floor party, the door opens to the fifth floor, where people are milling about in the hallway...
...shuttle to the Quad, Tad is hit on by women from 270 degrees. "They say Tad is pretty hot," says the girl knowingly in front...