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...FULL By Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
...Cable outlets will be installed in two common areas per House, and in the common rooms of each of the following [first-year] dormitories: "Apley, Canaday, Grays, Greenough, Mower, Straus, Weld and Wigglesworth," said the press release. "Service packages and charges will be the responsibilities of the various Houses...
...lists them, it becomes clear why readers have had to wait 11 years for A Man in Full (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 742 pages; $28.95) and how demanding the self-imposed Wolfe regimen of putting that book together actually was. "First, I tried to take the easy way out by setting most of the new novel in Manhattan, the same locale I'd used in Bonfire. I didn't realize until 1995 that this approach wasn't working and that I was repeating myself. Second, I always recommend to people who ask me for helpful hints on writing that they start...
Jessica F. Shapiro '01 warned that, at least for Straus residents, the situation will only get worse. "I slept with my feet on the radiator last year," she said. "It was such a small room to heat, but it was still cold...
Shapiro, now a resident of Kirkland House, also said she was dismayed that she was unable to control the temperature levels of her room in Straus. The heaters in student rooms in many of the upper-class Houses have functional dials with which the students can regulate their heat, while most of the freshman dorms...