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...superintendent's office. He's tried to hide the slips, but I've seen them! He is growing a long beard and is starting to smoke unfiltered cigarettes. UNFILTERED!! Can you believe it? He is growing fonder and fonder of Marxist criticism-in fact, I think I overheard him making cracks about laissez-faire economic policies! What should I do?? --Worried in Winthrop...
While hurrying to classes and socializing on the weekend, FM has often overheard single young adults complaining about the rarity of dating on campus. Too many forget that prime scoping location: church, Lamont Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson, master of Winthrop House, found divinity in more than just the sermon while a first year Near Eastern Studies PhD candidate here at Harvard. Hanson clearly remembers "that a group of us went out to lunch after church at the Peacock Restaurant...I was standing at the top of the steps and Cynthia was at the bottom...
...Yeah," admits Mark, who works in international customer service for United Parcel Service. He laughs and adds, "She gets jealous of some of the girls in the office," then explains how Laura once visited him at his previous job and became uncomfortable after she overheard him repeatedly compliment a female co-worker on her job performance. Laura smiles nervously, fidgets with a pen and says nothing...
Sensitive youth seeks sensible woman. Object: talk, talk, talk Can anything be more annoying than the prattle of an insensitive guy trying to impress a woman? Yes: the prattle of a sensitive guy. Surely you've overheard this banter in parks and restaurants. The fellow pontificates on the mystery of love, quotes from the Lake poets, shares the most fragile intimacies. And lurking inside his earnestness is this tacit question: "So-now that I've proved what a refined soul I am-can we have...
...Francisco bureau chief David Margolick, who is covering the case for the Times, wrote two articles in December about courtroom wrangles over a sheriff's deputy who claims to have overheard remarks Simpson made in a jailhouse conversation with former Los Angeles Rams lineman Roosevelt Grier, who is now a minister. Although the deputy was not permitted to state in court what he had heard, Margolick decided to quote the only previously published account of the remarks -- from the Dec. 20 issue of the Enquirer. "Simpson exclaimed, 'I did it!' " Margolick wrote, adding that "The Enquirer stands by its article...