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...open bar." Some of the World Class staff was even amused by the tenacity of the Harvard group, as most other college-aged groups had never put up such a fight after having been given the run-around. Fabianna continues that "as I hung up the phone once, I overheard Paul [the director of the World Class headquarters in Cancun] complain that I called every other fucking minute." Paul, a law school grad, ironically acquired some courtesy when he found out that the girls he was speaking to were Harvard students...
...Alexei, in the meantime, adapts to the regime by joining the Communist Party and becomes romantically involved with a woman that shares their apartment. Marie eventually finds an ally in Sacha, a young man whose grandmother was arrested and killed after a neighbor overheard her speaking French with Marie and subsequently denounced her to the secret police...
Waiting for a friend during shopping period I overheard two strangers having a conversation about Wittgenstein, culture and the color green and introduced myself. They were not my year and did not live in my House, work on my organizations or know my blockmates. And yet it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
...coffee and shortbread, along with the sounds of an Italian concerto, but host for the day Frank DiMaria personally introduced himself and invited me to make myself comfortable. As I browsed through his art objects-books on Egyptian philosophy, sheet music by Maurice Chevalier, cheap miniature sphinxes-I overheard the conversations of other patrons as they indeed discussed their ideas about the art they had seen that day. Far from the imposing gallery room in which novice visitors muffle their comments for fear of being "wrong," "The Living Room" fosters an atmosphere in which visitors feel comfortable to comment...
...Overheard outside the Barker Center...