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...nearly $200. Team Clean also formulated a point system designed to ?encourage? good hygiene among residents of the city?s 700,000 public-housing flats. Tenants who accrue 16 points in two years could face eviction. The point system is itself littered with odd value judgments; boiling wax in public is worth five points, for instance, while spitting gets you seven. To enforce it, the government will ask tenants to inform on dirty neighbors. Critics question the attempt to modify behavior through legislation, and many residents plan to ignore the new system altogether. In April, a group of politicians...
...strange combination of totally immersing myself into my imagination and artistic state, and yet writing with the full awareness that any pair of eyes could be reading the same thing,” says Liu. “Whenever I want to keep something secret, I just wax incoherent, undecipherable poetic that only I can understand, and that leaves everyone else in the dark, scratching an unlocated itch.” To see what she means, head to www.cmliu.com...
With pre-frosh weekend around the corner and the last two weeks of classes just beginning, I have started to wax nostalgic about the past four years. But before you dismiss this as another self-indulgent stroll down memory lane, bear with me for a few more paragraphs. A lot has changed since my own first Ice Cream Bash; we have a new president, a new Dean, a new Institute for Advanced Study. We’ve witnessed the Yard filled with snow, with leaves, with tents and with anti-war protesters. There have been changes for the better...
Ever-vigilant about hair removal, Harvard’s princesses rave about Pure Line on JFK Street for eyebrow waxing, while others trek to Dellaria in Kenmore Square for the arch wonders of Danielle. Teresa at Le Pli is also a favorite. While some expressed doubt about Ricki’s and Sasha’s, one veteran insists that Lena at Sasha’s has the “best, fastest and most painless Brazilian wax ever.” FM will take her word...
...Bolger’s confidence in the extraordinary nature of his story has enabled him to wax philosophical. “One can never say they’re happy to have a devastating experience, but I think you can learn from a bad deck of cards,” he says. This colloquial optimism isn’t hollow the way Bolger says it. It is certainly practiced—he tells this story a lot—but his sense of luck and his acknowledgement of how that affects his life is genuine. This...