Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Living above the entrance to Kirkland is good, because arrivals and departures tell a lot about what is going on with people in the dorm," says Katie J. Wink '00. "You see who's getting in a car with someone else. You see who's coming to visit more often. You see if someone fixes their hair before they go into the courtyard and might be seen...
Wink professes to be a "closet gossip-monger" when it comes to the activities of her dormmates. "The best is when you catch someone on a quasi-walk-of-shame. When it's still dark out, but you can just tell that they are all flushed and touseled from, you know, hooking...
...planet itself do not require guide plans, and if they are subject to the programs by knowledgeable consultants, they consistently fail to live up to set standards. Columnists, too, are guilty of the sin of coherence--they attempt to make meaning of the world on a daily basis. They tell you why Bill Clinton sent a brooch to Monica Lewinsky, what possessed the editors at Boston Magazine to call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions...
Finally, the process began. I was moved up and into a claustrophobic cavern. It seemed white on the inside, but it was so dark that it was hard to tell. I was surrounded by a closed dome that was only an inch or two above my face. I began to wonder if my coffin would be similar. What would the traditional Jewish casket of plain pine look like from the inside...
...might tell us a little bit about the strength of the old boy's network--that it's stronger then I wish it were," she said. "I think it would be an indication that the club needs to do much more to make the club open to women...