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...cooking and limitless sleep last week, dozens of dedicated students remained here on a near-deserted campus. Athletes with continuing practices, seniors rushing to finish their theses, and others on campus for extracurriculars or just to catch up on work were left with the College in near shut-down mode. While we realize it was vacation time, Harvard should respect its ever toiling students by preserving at least the most bare of living essentials. Below, a brief checklist to make those sitting out next year's spring break a little more comfortable...
...being paid. Day-care centers whose bills were past due worried about having to turn away children or let staff go. Parents who tried to contact Maximus encountered what a state administrator called "telephone-system collapse." With its contract in jeopardy, Maximus CEO David Mastran went into crisis mode, nearly tripling the project's staff and showing up in Connecticut himself. The blame lies partly with the state for not anticipating how quickly welfare recipients would find work and need child care, says company spokesman Kevin Geddings. "But we should have taken a much closer look," he says...
...attempting to keep himself from having, at the very least, a violent tantrum. The fact that his facial expressions often seem to suggest the psychotic killer rather than the mourning father does not help, nor does the fact that he appears to be in the same "vacation mode" as everybody else in the cast...
...style, however silly on occasion, gave the magazine a distinctive voice. Men were not famous but "famed," not powerful but "potent." High on the list of accolades was "able." All were masculine terms of approbation: the news in Homeric mode, demigods or villains on tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...
...suicide and envy. Soon enough, Hoolihan finds herself facing the abyss that lies between Jennifer's seemingly ideal life and her own drab existence. "Jennifer Rockwell is inside of me," the cop says, "trying to reveal what I don't want to see." And this, of course, is Amis' mode as well: to shine a flashlight on our seamy undersides and see what crawls...