Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their on-the-town uniform is like any other at Harvard: black pedal pusher pants, low-cut tops and uncomfortable shoes. So attired, five sorority sisters and two friends, no strangers to Harvard final club-hopping, make entrance, after entrance, into a series of smoke-filled, tubthumping, liquor-stocked rooms Saturday night...
Though final clubs have undergone strict scrutiny in recent years, this group believes the clubs--and the women that visit them--are only part of a bigger picture. They see getting together and traipsing around town on weekend nights as less of a meat-market scenario and more an opportunity to meet with friends they rarely see on Harvard's busy campus...
...group asked a homeless person at Out of Town News, 'What is knowledge?'" Truitt says...
Amenities: Indoor health club (complete with pool sauna, massage rooms and exercise equipment), free town car service, and 24-hour multilingual concierge, overnight shoeshine...
...quote comes from a tablet currently on display at Harvard's Semitic Museum. It is part of an exhibit on the excavations of the town of Nuzi, a small provincial city in northern Mesopotamia that was once part of the Mittani kingdom, a Near Eastern world power from around 1500 B.C.E. The tablet is one of 14 preserved from the deposition of Kushshi-harbe, the mayor of Nuzi, during investigations into his sexual misconduct and criminal behavior...