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...ritual just as she still goes to parties in the Houses to remain connected to House social atmosphere. There are drawbacks to the off-campus lifestyle, however: Davis does concede that she does not run into some of her friends as much as she used to. Another slight hassle of living outside the housing system is that Davis doesn’t have the same level of Harvard maintenance. When she arrived, her bedroom was in a less than livable state and there was wall-painting to be done. “Having Dorm Crew is a big plus...
Maghan Grahn, a sophomore transfer from Minnesota-Duluth who last played for the 2001-2002 national champions, will skate between the pipes for UNH. With five games experience, she has a slight edge over the pair of incoming freshmen, but the situation will take time to sort itself...
...can’t jump to that conclusion so easily. At Harvard, we must continue to take every instance of Rohypnol poisoning seriously, with a slight exception—it does not definitively point to an intended sexual assault...
...family portraits, though, are what weave the book together and provide a welcome human resonance. Didion gives a charming account of her maternal grandmother, an extravagant spirit who, like many women in her family, tended toward "slight and major derangements." Her father, a hard-drinking depressive, leveraged one real estate deal after another with little money. "His idea of a relaxing way to make a payment was to drive to Nevada and shoot craps all night." The remembered details of family life yield vivid metaphors for her theme, none better than this: in a Sacramento house the Didions moved into...
...After slight bewilderment, she turned up her head and smiled...