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...Person by person, weekend by weekend, I found the other kids who weren’t going out and getting trashed. I stuck with my other freshman roommate, chilled with some of the girls across the hall, and laughed with the boys next door. We bounced bagels in the stairway, had random conversations till late in the night, and threw our own alcohol-free mini-dance parties, where we danced however we wanted and giggled about it afterward...
...most of the school’s eating clubs call home, the building is one many Division-I football programs would be proud to call home. The glaring eyesores are relatively few and far between—though the skeletal statues of two Tigers mid-pounce guarding a main stairway come immediately to mind. Modern amenities are built directly into the main thoroughfares, fans are seated close to the action and seated comfortably, and a this-century-model scoreboard rises from a gently sloping hill that overlooks the field. There are even, I kid you not, luxury boxes...
When Turner tries to leave again after only one day home, Henry takes him to task, declaring that he is “still on the stairway,” and not yet able to mend his relationship with Jason. A large part of Turner’s reason for staying seems to be no nobler than his attraction to the madcap Danish nurse Katrina (Glenne Headly) hired by Jason to tend to Henry, nicely echoing the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in which she and Caine had an electrifying comedic dynamic...
...Arroz de Pato à Moda do Minho (duck with rice). There are also seclude footpaths, grottoes, a tennis court and a lake with boats for hire. The hillside is covered with beautiful things: the main staircase and a Pelican fountain have graceful statues of biblical figures. Nearby is the Stairway of Virtues (with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity); fountains representing the senses of taste, smell, hearing and sight; and the equestrian statue of Longuinhos, which represents a man who had a daughter he couldn't marry off. The statue has become an object of superstition - it is believed that...
...expense of the present. In an Atlantic Monthly article entitled “The Organization Kid,” David Brooks critically examined the drive and minute planning that characterize the lives of young people today, particularly Ivy Leaguers. “College is just one step on the stairway of advancement,” Brooks writes of students at top colleges, “and they are always aware that they must get to the next step (law school, medical school, whatever) so that they can progress up the steps after that...