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...permanence of the black and gold of the Royal Standard. Maids served their aristocratic lords and ladies hot dishes of traditional lamb and beef peppered with the appropriate number of sirs and madams. Masters, in turn, gave them the courteous nod, the occasional leftover and fair pay. But, underneath the lacy facade, fear and hatred lay brewing, occasionally ruffling the cover with a small gust of wind...
...months ago the truth finally became impossible to ignore. A tiny mound of dried mud appeared on the bathroom ceiling; when Patrick scraped it aside and peered into the quarter-size hole underneath, he saw them--pale white termites, hundreds of them, scurrying through the dank darkness above. "I freaked out," he says. "I grabbed a can of Raid and blasted it into the hole"--about as effective as using a water pistol on a herd of rampaging elephants...
When those portentous white envelopes slide underneath the doors of anxious first-years tomorrow morning, the randomization experiment will be nearly complete.... After the Class of '98 graduates, some of us will remember when the House had character, but none who lived with it intact will remain at the College...
...college] I just thought of him as someone who was a football player, remote... He seemed like the demon investigator, not someone who cared for small people," Lewis says. "I was completely wrong. He was, underneath a hard shell he put on, an extremely tender person," Lewis adds, noting that his opinion changed as he watched Kennedy promote civil rights as attorney general...
...talked about the attack over and over again, sometimes remembering new fears and images that my mother and I had blocked out. A few days after the incident, I began to fear that my coach was hiding underneath my bed, in my closet or behind the shower curtain. One night I walked into my parents' room crying, too afraid to go to sleep. They comforted me, reassuring me that my fears were normal. Beginning that night, the three of us made rounds every day to check in all the scary places before I got into bed. Sometimes, I still like...