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...Above all, don't just be a Harvard student--become a Bostonian and a Cantabrigian. Embrace the Boston culture and it will hug you back with all the warmth of an Italian great-aunt. We may be cruel to tourists occasionally, but we're generally pretty nice to our fellow locals who know the city's best-kept secrets. Get over the ivy-covered walls, get off campus and explore your new home...
...First, it would promote the American virtue of equality. No longer would the rich live in posh apartments while the poor rubbed their hands together for warmth in the Yard. The Houses would be "national and democratic," Lowell explained. Within each House, for example, large and spacious rooms, presumably to be occupied by wealthy students, were placed next to small ones in order to force the interaction that wouldn't take place if rich students were permitted to isolate themselves. Second, the Houses were to be representative. Lowell called them "a microcosm of the University," implying that they would each...
...Huddling together for warmth...
Ignore the spin - Bill Clinton's valedictory Moscow summit had all the warmth of a bargaining session between divorce lawyers. He and President Vladimir Putin failed to make any progress on the vexing question of missile defense, and the Russians signaled their displeasure with the U.S. president by failing to broadcast his speech to the Russian legislature on TV. "It was extremely important to the surviving pro-Western elements in Russia's political elite that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because...
...fading into memory or untimely ripped from our admiring attention - because they have challenged our imaginations, entertained us with their skill and charmed us with their transcendent appeal. In essence, they have helped shape an enduring part of us with their performances and touched our lives with the effusive warmth of theirs...