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...said that the procedure, performed on almost every upper-class woman in pre-modern China, crippled its victims for life...
Halfway through their first year, Harvard students receive a glossy booklet called "Inside the Houses." Here, students read that the houses will be the center of their upper-class existences, a spot where "daily interactions give fullest expression to the life of learning...
...upper-class students tell a different story. Many say their own experiences with house life have been much less intellectually-oriented than this description implies...
While it is unlikely we will ever be able to provide for a student in all of the three upper-class years what Galper reports he or she wants, namely "a room of one's own," we do care a lot about issues of privacy and providing appropriate study space. We are committed to using the real estate we have as creatively as possible to achieve these ends and welcome students' constructive suggestions. Thomas A. Dingman Associate Dean of the College For the House System and Human Resources
...anyone close to them, many Americans found it easy to put AIDS out of mind. For all the suffering and pain and lives cut short, it just seemed like someone else's problem. AIDS was something that happened to ghetto dwellers, drug addicts or gays, not to middle- and upper-class folks who limited themselves to straight...