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When the University constructed the DeWolfe Street apartments in the early 1990s, officials told residents the buildings would be for graduate students and junior faculty, sparking resentment in the neighborhood after the buildings were devoted to overflow housing for undergraduates instead...
...Ferry ’12 submitted to the administration a plan to build an addition between Winthrop’s Gore and Standish Halls consisting of low-cost rooms and communal bathrooms in order to alleviate crowding in the existing House rooms. Claverly Hall, meanwhile, was being used as overflow housing for upperclassmen...
...aids and crime. These are being addressed, but, like racism, they will take a long time to be satisfactorily resolved. We are pointed in the right direction, and right now our cup is more than half full. Given the determination and goodwill pervading this country, in time it will overflow. Daryl O'Connor Bryanston, South Africa Bolton 's Image Problem Re Your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former...
Photos of women’s breasts, stacks and stacks of business cards, and cardboard boxes full of promotional Shamrock t-shirts overflow onto couches and haphazard bookshelves. Attached to the office is the lounge, with a TV, couches, and most importantly, a vanity table and mirror where the women straighten their hair, pop pimples, and reapply heavy eyeliner. One stripper darts outside to ask John—Johnny to her—for batteries for her vibrator...
...many other states. Last week a federal judge in Nashville reacted by hanging out a NO VACANCY sign. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Higgins ruled that no more inmates can be accepted at the state's 13 men's prisons and three inmate-reception centers, where prisoners overflow into gyms and administrative offices. Only once before, in Alabama in 1975, have all a state's jails been closed because of overcrowding...