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...history, the answer has been a resounding yes. The early seventeenth century College required tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
...alarm and groggily climb out of bed. As I shower, I am still half asleep, but slowly begin to acclimate to the morning as I throw on my clothes. For the 100th time, I wonder why I am doing this to myself: six hours of sleep and 15 hours of work a day seem obscenely off-balanced. And what about the eight cups of coffee a day that just barely manage to keep me awake? This can’t be healthy, can it? But, as always, my adrenaline rushes as I think of 9 a.m.—that...
...audience at the original London show, the British construction magnate Robert McAlpine was so enchanted by the stage set that he decided he wanted a bit of Sleeping Beauty's magic for his own domain. So he commissioned Messel to design a suite, a penthouse, a pavilion and a roof terrace with fountain for his luxury London hotel the Dorchester. The result, which opened in 1953 and has been restored but never altered, is truly fit for a princess. The entire scheme is an essay in riotous cod rococo: swagged chintz, contorted gilt (even the bathroom fittings are gold-plated...
...Just what interrogation methods are off the table now? Depends on whom you talk to. McCain, who along with Graham and Warner had fought the Administration on some of the most coercive methods, insisted to reporters last week that the harshest techniques--such as waterboarding, stress positions, extreme sleep deprivation and hypothermia--could now be illegal. "For all the gloating from the Administration," says Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch, "they are not getting what they want on torture." And what methods are O.K.? No one inside or outside the CIA will say. Which may mean we're going...
...After the event, Thomas gained entrance to the victim’s unoccupied room by kicking the door down, and was helped to the bed by fullback Michael Lucas ’07, who apparently told witnesses that Thomas was “quite drunk and needed to sleep it off,” according to a police report.Witnesses said that Thomas frequently stayed in the room after drinking.When the victim returned, she came back to the room and woke Thomas up. The pair began to argue, and eventually witnesses entered from an adjoining room to find the victim...