Word: toweritis
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...customers enter Tower Records, most pass by the inconspicuous maroon door on the right-hand wall without thinking twice. If they do notice it, chances are they guess it is a break room, a storeroom or an employee restroom...
...those plays aren't really Shakespeare's!" That is the rebel yell of a hardy band of amateur historians as they catch the wave of the bard's new vogue to resplash their thesis: Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare; Edward de Vere did. What's more, an ivory-tower conspiracy is keeping their views from being taken seriously. "We're into something called bardgate," says Peter Dickson, a CIA official turned revisionist Elizabethan scholar. Shakespeare is not a crook, reply the defenders of the glover's son from Warwickshire. And each side casts the other as devils citing Hamlet...
Other groups could learn from SASI's example oftaking the Ivory Tower by storm. The group'sstrength should be a lesson to others who feelstrongly about the importance of their ethnicheritage. It's up to student ethnic organizationsto convince Harvard to change its offerings...
...Harvard could retreat to its Ivory Tower, butthen they should shut down Phillips Brooks Housetoo," he said. "We want a University that...triesto make its expertise available to solve realworld problems...
Sitting in her eighth grade classroom in the shadow of Mather Tower, Cheryl T. Haynes, a 24-year-old veteran teacher, can remember when teacher testing was not a controversial issue...