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...Instead of ignoring the comments, James tries to educate the colleague by explaining why she found it hurtful or insulting. "I may be someone's window into a culture or a world that they have no knowledge or understanding of," she says. "As wearying as it may become, I have to be ready to teach as much as I have to be ready to absorb and learn. You have to be ready to deal with it if you're going to be a pioneer...
...There was one girl last year who would strip down and splatter herself against the window and scare people…just for kicks,” reported Leverite Marissa C. Carrio, ’06. Not even a hard hat will protect you from that...
...fact, he’s a familiar face. During the three-minute walk from Reeves’ storefront campaign headquarters at 555 Mass. Ave. to the CCTV offices at 675 Mass. Ave., the councillor exchanges greetings with at least five passers-by.At the CCTV offices, a man raps the window to get Reeves’ attention. Rapping his own fist against the glass in response, Reeves explains that the man’s former landlord had sold his house, leaving the man in the hands of a new landlord who wanted him to leave. Reeves had helped the man find...
...institution’s most notable weaknesses. In Cambridge, I no longer wake to the chirping of birds. Their songs have been replaced by the Harvard shuttle’s boorish droning. The shuttle, like a persistent suitor, returns to its place beneath my Mather window every ten minutes from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, offering up its garbled, biodiesel-tainted entreaties and refusing to take no for an answer. Worse than that, however, is the lumbering of the heavy machines across the way, which thunderously churn and bruise the earth in the name of construction...
...report that someone had been smoking in the bathroom. Police found the bathroom empty and were unable to locate the alleged smoker. 10:20 a.m.—An officer reported to the Law School’s Story Hall because of a report concerning an open window and bullets strewn on the floor. The officer determined that the bullets were fakes and had been left from a party held the night before. Oct. 30: 3:22 p.m.—An officer investigated the theft of a Cannon digital camera worth $200 and cell phone worth $100 at Currier...