Word: sleeps
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...thing was wrong: no one was trying to be hurtful or cruel; we just had different work habits and expectations. For a month we tried to compromise and tiptoe around the issues. Our rooming conflicts, however, began to affect profoundly the ability of our struggling roommate to work, sleep and coexist with the other four of us. Five young women who should have been friends barely spoke, rarely brought friends over, and could not feel at home in their own room...
...union dorms, you’ll pleasantly discover how close you are to Lamont, where you’ll be spending many late nights cramming. You’ll also find yourself close to the academic part of the Yard, where you will be catching up on your sleep during lectures...
...obsession with useful leisure activities, and they are well aware that today's overachieving superparents can't bear the thought of their obviously exceptional offspring wasting breath on any activity that won't help them win early acceptance to Princeton. ("Now, Sweetpea, you know Madison can't sleep over on Fridays because then you're both too grumpy for your Saturday-morning bilingual yoga class...
...prolific writer, in perhaps the most authoritative of Italian portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point out the different shades of the cathedral's stonework: "It has taken seven centuries to produce...
...recent convert's wife, who wasn't Muslim, that her husband wouldn't suddenly become a terrorist. "A lot of their families freak out at first," Khan says. He says another convert had to reassure his brother, who asked, "You're not going to kill me in my sleep, are you?" And yet there's little evidence that negative perceptions of Islam--fewer than 20% of Americans say they have a positive image of the religion, according to one poll--have had any effect on the rate of conversion. Instead, since 9/11, some mosques have seen a jump...