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First-year Helen Newman suggests equating numbers with letters (A=1, B=2, etc.) when selecting houses. "The numbers in my name, H + E + L + E + N, are 8 + 5 + 12 + 5 + 14. Plus, my last name, Newman, 14 + 5 + 23 + 13 + 1 + 14. Plus the letters in Leverett, 12 + 5+ 22 + 5 + 18 + 5 + 20 + 20. Add those and you get 221. Then divide that by the number of houses, 13, and you get 17." Newman explains that calculations for no other house name yielded at integer. "It's the only' whole number house' for my name!" she exclaims...
...this age diminishing resources, the best strategy may be to focus on the most direct approach to job stimulation. There are two basic aspects to the problem of job-stimulation. The first is the reluctance of the private sector (for many reasons stemming from strong competitive pressures, excessive regulation, etc.) to increase its use of labor relative to its historical demand for labor. The GOP proposes to address this aspect of the jobs problem through the mechanism of the capital gains...
When the curtain rises on Central Park West, we realize we're back in Allenland--that ingenious, engaging and occasionally claustrophobic terrain. We know the props: shrink jokes, sexual put-downs, etc. Debra Monk is Phyllis, a psychotherapist who, having discovered that her husband Sam (Guilfoyle) is unfaithful, seeks solace from her friend Carol (Lavin). Or so it seems. Turns out that Phyllis isn't looking for comfort but revenge: she suspects it is Carol her husband has been sleeping with. Carol counters by announcing that she and Sam, desperately in love, will be moving to London...
...their letter-writing and social calls--offered little fodder for fiction, except in the hands of an adept like Jane Austen. Instead of presenting happy alternatives to boredom, fiction by and for women often presented them in positions of extreme anguish and suffering, spurned by lovers, neglected by husbands, etc. In comparison, Spacks argues, boredom would look good...
...discrimination and prejudice have been instituted in American society for hundreds of years. And we know that tenured professors often stay on staff for more than 30 years, and so do business executives, law partners, surgeons, etc. To truly change the climate of the American work-place--so that minority job applicants are no longer greeted by seas of white interviewers--affirmative action must have more time...