Word: sleeps
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...famed lack of a vibrant social scene or a dearth of viable partners—not only these, anyway—but rather a lack of space in the beds themselves. Perhaps it was Harvard’s intention to promote undergraduate chastity by supplying such inadequate sleeping arrangements; if it was, however, the college has failed. Students still pair up after parties and crash with their significant others—they just do so uncomfortably. Some have gone to great lengths to secure a comfortable night’s sleep. Harvard needs to recognize the needs of its students...
...addition to the long hours and sleep deprivation that is usually associated with medical residencies, Fahrenkopf said that residents “don’t have much autonomy, will spend very little time with patients, and will do a lot more secretarial labor...
...Character-Building Initiative” (CBI) circulate: Girls received the gift of snowfall in their Winthrop room; blockmates spent an afternoon bailing water out of their Kirkland House second-story window after their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room of a five-story section of Lowell House (of course, the water first had to make it through the layer of asbestos...
...Instead, Gondry—who also wrote the film—takes the loosely autobiographical plotline as an opportunity to run wild with the refined amateurism that resulted in the high points of his last film, 2006’s “The Science of Sleep.”The victim of an electrical accident, Mike’s sudden magnetism promptly erases the content of every video cassette in his best friend Mos Def’s struggling neighborhood video store. In a race against time and good economic sense, Black and Def begin introducing customers...
...work centers primarily on the lives of four couples, each representing a different issue facing modern Africa.Explored in the relationship between the Ruler and his wife Rachael is the issue confronting so many African countries today: the tyranny of an egotistical ruler. The Ruler’s tendency to sleep with women, sometimes no more than girls, in order to punish their politically insubordinate husbands and fathers epitomizes his deviously manipulative and base regime: for him, they’ve become mere objects to be used. When Rachael confronts him about sleeping with schoolgirls, the Ruler locks her away...