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...week before he disappeared, Nicholas Leeson kept throwing up in the bathroom at work. Colleagues didn't know why. He had been working hard, perhaps harder than usual. For two months, the security guard at his luxury apartment building in Singapore had been complaining about the noise from Leeson's computer printer. It was grinding out copy from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.--the hours Wall Street did business 12 time zones away. During the daytime, the young Englishman appeared distracted, almost dour. In the trading pit of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange, where Leeson worked from dawn...
Last fall, Christopher Buckley, the editor of Forbes' FYI magazine, was the "honored" speaker at the annual Yale Daily News banquet. As recounted in the Nov. 22, 1994 New York Times, he was astonished to find the newspaper's editors absolutely smashed at the event--throwing up in the bathroom, unconscious around the dais. Was the problem a generation gap? Only in the sense that Mr. Buckley was unfamiliar with the contemporary college scene...
...sharply written, penetrating chapters, Solomon also treats the fondness Mozart had for riddles, wordplay and bathroom humor; his passionate involvement in Freemasonry; and even, in a short chapter called "Adam," his private, symbolic use of a name that was previously regarded as a misprint of "Amada," the most common form of his middle name. If the author sometimes relies too heavily on Freudian interpretations of symbols-" ... the adoption of the name Adam also has the ancillary effect of canceling God's direct presence-Theophilus [one of Mozart's middle names]"-it is a small fault when measured against the book...
...downside of Thin Wall Syndrome intensifies particularly when bedrooms or common rooms are adjoined to bathrooms. "The boy next to us has a piano or a keyboard in his room," Lowellite Megan DuBose '97 said. "Whenever we go into the bathroom, it's like we have a stereo in there. I feel a little self-conscious going to the bathroom. Like the other day, I could hear the beeps on his computer. Now, if I can hear those beeps, then I know he can hear us going to the bathroom...
...Kirkland House resident feels shame every time she goes into the bathroom. "You'd think you could be private in your own bathroom, but you know they're listening to everything you're doing," Kate, a sophomore, said. "When you can't even throw up in peace and quiet in your own bathroom, you know there's something wrong. You think I could go and take a shower with someone in there? No way--they'd hear everything." Ay, the troubles we do face...