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...class—a luxury, considering he didn’t set foot into a classroom during the three weeks of the presidential campaign—Sundquist proffers his ID at the entrance to Annenberg Hall. From there, the count is on. Over an hour-long meal, five minutes seldom pass without Sundquist being recognized and engaged in conversation.According to Troy C. Murrell ’09, Sundquist’s suitemate, the delay faced in the vice president’s own Mather House dining hall is even more pronounced.“On our way it?...
...RECALLED NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY TO GO TO RESTAURANTS AS A BOY. DOES THAT EXPERIENCE INFLUENCE THE WAY YOU RUN YOUR OWN ESTABLISHMENTS? My family was poor and could seldom afford to go to a restaurant. The few times we did were embarrassing beyond belief. The result is I identify far more with someone who's uncomfortable in a restaurant than someone who's at ease. The same with my staff. I have an affinity for people who are uncomfortable with either themselves or the situation they're in. I guess if I have such a thing as an asset...
...presented in 2000, "is built on the actual empirical evidence we have concerning the content of dreams," Revonsuo says. "It's surprising how many theories of dreaming there are that are not based on any systematic review of the evidence." He cites studies showing that, typically, dreams are too seldom sweet, and that negative feelings, dangerous scenarios and aggression are over-represented. Based on ongoing work with PhD student Katja Valli, Revonsuo estimates that the average "non-traumatized" young adult has, conservatively, 300 threat-simulation dreams a year. In the dreams of both men and women, male strangers and wild...
...animals make up about 30% of all characters in the dreams of children aged 2-6 compared to 5% of adults'. True, the animals of children's dreams are often fluffy and harmless, but almost half the time they're frightening creatures-snakes, bears, lions, gorillas-that children would seldom, if ever, have encountered in waking life...
...Harvard, we are so immersed in the immense modern world that we seldom get the opportunity to truly pretend we’re living in the 1940s, chatting about the Lend-Lease Act, before all this “green campus” propaganda kicked into gear. Perhaps it’s time Harvard started relentlessly exploiting its long, gilded past...