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First-years, however, had plenty of gripes. Some, like Lindsey O. Worth '02, a Straus resident; Peter W. Graham '02, who lives in Wigglesworth; and Nancy Liao '02 and Margo Strucker '02, both of whom live in Canaday, were surprised to hear that the heat had even been turned...
...project might have occupied part of a Saturday afternoon. Instead, as the author relates in the preamble to his spectacularly orogenous and deeply benthic volume Annals of the Former World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 696 pages; $35), it required most of the next 20 years. It morphed from one road cut to a nation of them across the continental trail of Interstate 80, and from one bemused geologist to dozens. Readers had stamina then, and over the years the New Yorker printed McPhee's emerging rock opera as a succession of four-parters: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from...
Mario Vargas Llosa the politician ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
Sparagana's addition comes after six years of improvements to first year housing--including improvements to common rooms in Straus Hall, Canaday Hall and Apley Court, Nathans said...
Moreover, it is very likely that someone from outside the halls did the damage. First years know the Straus common room hosts a panoply of activities--from study card collection to plays-that cater to the entire Yard and to upperclass students. Wigglesworth's common room boasts a pool table that attracted hustlers form other halls. If the residents of a hall come to understand that they will be accountable for damage done by outsiders, halls may quickly become insular. Should residents of a particular hall start to be distrustful of other Yard dwellers, the spirit and purpose...