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...Down in the basement, the older chimps are less fortunate. Tanka, a 10-year-old male, sits in total social isolation??he is considered too dangerous to mix with other animals and too ugly to adorn any cards. In another enclosure, other unwanted chimps sit banging their hands against the floor. As guests approach, they repeatedly throw themselves against the Plexiglas windows that enclose them...
...Kozol lived in Roxbury for 20 years, but now resides in Byfield, Mass., where he finds the “isolation?? necessary to write...
...stunning fact that the methods of higher education have hardly changed at all. While elementary and secondary education have benefited from progressive ideas of alternative learning, group work, and hands-on activity, higher education has retained an unfortunate commitment to antiquated Puritan themes of individual contemplation and work in isolation??both of which characterize the academic experience of the Core, the hours spent alone in the library, alone writing a paper, alone taking notes in a crowded lecture hall...
...brave souls who venture into the book’s 360 pages will be pleasantly surprised. Columbia grad McCafferty has captured much of the contemporary college (and particularly, college female) experience, from sitting with peers in “iPod isolation??—a habit that fascinates Jessica for being “social, yet solipsistic at the same time”—to Ivy League parties, “full of smart, funny people who are all used to being the smartest, funniest person in the room...
...thriving comedy club that is a hotbed for the discovery of new comic talent. Whether due to the prevalence of written comedy on campus or the attractive group mentality of improvisational comedy groups, the lonely practice of stand-up comedy is a rare art on campus. But that isolation??forcing unique and strange comedy acts that go beyond mere observational humor—just might be what makes Harvard stand-up interesting.HA-HA HARVARD“There really isn’t much of a scene,” says Cooper R. Bachman...