Word: spaces
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...city outside settles down for the night, inside Papa Costa's, the party is only just getting started. Aid workers jostle for space on the dancefloor with young Sudanese women who are content to let their scarves slip to their shoulders as a five-piece band hammers out a mixture of North African pop and rock 'n roll jukebox standards...
...idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
...against a pillar nearby, his hands in his pockets. In front of him was a framed shipwreck chalked on brown paper. Another couple lounged between the Ionic columns, their chitchat dramatized by theatrically yellowed lighting. They were framed against the white wall, and as the night progressed, the negative space between their profiles shrank and shrank again. Beneath them, on the dance floor, the tipsy teetered on their high heels and clung to their partners’ shoulders. Like so many Harvard encounters, the dancing was ever so slightly awkward and forced, as if these students who had just celebrated...
...Harvard’s campus changed their tune. If the previously-estimated “mere” 40 transfer admits for 2008-2009 were only just “accepted and spread out across all 12 houses,” this newspaper wrote, “the additional space constraints per house would be minimal.” (It is unclear whether or not they would also be “demoralizing.”) Other editorial writers demanded that Harvard “disclose some more compelling reasons” for a decision whose consequences...
...transfer is a reason why Winthrop seniors will be living in common rooms and Dunster residents will continue to live in closets. And though making a show of our insecurities about our own success is certainly endearing, current undergraduates might forgive themselves a little bit of selfishness where personal space is concerned, at least...