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Despite the ultimately successful resolutions, the process of arriving at agreements was not always smooth in either neighborhood...
...putting Harvard on a Yale-style housing system. But this is not the time to start following Yale’s example—assigning first-years to houses upon arrival will deter socialization with students in other first-year dorms. Further, while blocking isn’t always smooth, students deserve the chance to decide who their living companions are going to be for the next three years. A better solution to the travails of Yard life is to have upperclass students replace proctors, keeping only one non-undergraduate per dorm around to keep an eye on the yardlings...
Peyser said that while the instability of the situation could be detrimental, the selection of Altshuler would facilitate a smooth transition...
This is a perfectly amiable book but never even slightly a surprising one. Mayle wears smooth the cliches about the French--how their hauteur can be impeccable and their plumbing imponderable, how they drive too fast and have those jaunty bosoms. You imagine Mayle making his checklist of the bits of Provencal color to be sprinkled around the story. Old men playing boules in the village square. Check. Fragrant disks of goat cheese wrapped in chestnut leaves. Check. Funny Englishman mangling the French tongue. Check. You have to admire his tireless attention to food and drink, to cassoulets "humming with...
...Yagira, whose face has the smooth, attractive androgyny of an anim? hero, behaves on film with a wondrously gentle sense of authority. Yet when he finally got his hands on the Cannes prize last week, he showed that there's still a kid inside him. When asked where the trophy will go, he replied, "Can I take it home...