Word: wanderings
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...While self-absorbed would-be philosophers wander around Widener flipping through pages of Habermas, the surrounding community is well aware of what Harvard people are doing. Invasion of the ivy utopia is common during reading period while would-be thieves size up the campus and pilfer a few backpacks and PalmVs. Although crime has decreased in Cambridge recently because of snow, rain and--unrelatedly--the booming economy, Harvard students still leave burglars every opportunity to grab some booty. From psychologically impaired shoe thieves to the crime spree that jarred Eliot House a few weeks ago, crimes happen here...
...meaningful second act, and just a few impressions of the characters: that Bush seemed expertly able to keep the faith with mainstream Republicans, but didn't make inroads into the political middle. That if Al Gore had really captured the imagination of Democrats and independents, why did so many wander into the Republican primaries to vote for McCain? That McCain did indeed conjure a yearning for freshness and outspokenness in our psyches, and that Bill Bradley was a great basketball player, a fine senator and a citizen with an admirable conscience...
...wander to the race book and bingo rooms of the casino. Both are dead, but they won't stay that way for long. Sunday will be a big day for high stakes bingo in Connecticut, just as it has been ever since Foxwoods, just down the road in Ledyard, opened its first bingo game in 1986. Which reminds me, I'm going to Foxwoods. And I'd better...
...headed back into the snow on Saturday, I had walked only a couple of blocks and my mind had started to wander when a co-attendee called out, "Look, there goes another social entrepreneur." I laughed, but I took the comment to heart. I am so excited to know so many "social entrepreneurs" creating community change right now, in remarkably varied ways...
...More distressing, however, is the fact that the current production at Harvard seems to wander in its focus. More often than not, the play itself centers on the sexual differences between men and women. The program notes even include a section devoted to why the X chromosome is thousands of times more useful, bigger, and better than the Y chromosome: "Gentlemen, I'm afraid it's true, size does make a difference". If Ensler's goal was to simply state that women are better than men are, these statements might have been relevant, but this seems contrary to Ensler...