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...affiliation means nothing when a dangerous situation presents itself to a student who lives in the Quad but happens to be down by the River. The only thing of importance is finding a safe haven. Right now, the situation is Houses, Houses everywhere, yet we can’t swipe in. We are all Harvard students, and these are all our Houses. We need access to them whenever necessary...
Hell hath no fury like a prime minister scorned, and Grant uses the following day’s press conference to take a swipe at his American counterpart. After the president, sporting the ubiquitous American flag pin, blithely asserts that the so-called “special relationship” between the two countries “remains special,” Grant strikes back. “I love that word relationship. It covers all manner of sins, doesn’t it?” says Grant. “I fear it has become a bad relationship...
...anything [when] we forced the fumble against Lafayette that completely turned the game around. We were sputtering on offense, we weren’t really doing much and on defense we were pretty iffy all game. While it wasn’t a great hit, I took a swipe at the ball, knocked it out, and the momentum of the game completely flipped around...
...League hometowns come in two varieties: bucolic small towns whose postcard streets are overrun with bed-and-breakfasts, all-vegan cafes and Williams-Sonomas (Ithaca, Princeton), and famous big cities theoretically inhabited by yuppies and sitcom characters, even if the actual neighbors have to be kept at bay with swipe cards and rent-a-cops (New York, Philadelphia). New Haven doesn’t do bucolic. New Haven has no elegant skyscrapers or swooping, glittery bridges which can be artfully photographed for the covers of admissions brochures. The closest we?...
...Dartboard can see no reason why she can’t just sneak in and get an apple or bagel or anything else that does not require using dishware. Perhaps there are health code violations involving clean-up that Dartboard was unaware she was breaking when attempting to swipe in at 7:16 p.m. In any event, an explanation of the regulations governing the privilege to eat in a dining hall that room and board pays for would be better than the embarrassing debacle that meals sometimes become. Being greeted with eye rolls and, once, a physical blocking...