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...fact is that foreign-language films no longer matter. Americans, absorbed in their junk culture, are shuttering a window to the rest of the movie world...
...painful being the “ACME Seed Company” offer of seeds to distract the consumer from the horrific mistake of having had children. (Ware himself only recently had a child.) My personal favorite is the “Happy Family Appliqués,” window-coverings designed to conceal dysfunctional or crime-ridden homes from the outside world...
...Daniel J. Hopkins ’00, who was the Currier House tutor on call over the weekend, wrote in an e-mail that the problem does not actually stem from the roof of the buildings. “It’s a minor problem in how the windows are sealed that leads to leaks only very occasionally, when there is considerable rain and also heavy wind,” he wrote. “When water is blown sideways or when it rains for many days, it can build up and seep in through the bottom...
...student won’t get in trouble for having a relationship with a tutor,” he says, “but if they put a hole in the wall…” What happens if I moon people from my window? This can result in arrests for ‘lewd and lascivious behavior’ or ‘open and gross behavior.’ There is a loophole: in 2003, naked PETA activists had a case dropped against them. So, unless you’ve got a cause, keep the cheeks...
...seems). The weather was warming and the smell of blooming flowers and fresh-cut grass was in the air. I had just woken up in my first-floor room in Stoughton Hall, which faced out onto the Yard. Yawning, I groped my way in the darkness to my window, to open up the blinds and greet the beautiful spring day. Faces pressed against the glass—not unlike those Garfield dolls suctioned-cupped to a car window—a group of camera-toting, map-clutching tourists were trying to peer into my room. Apparently, they had decided that...