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...explains that the prime time for viewing is usually around midnight, when people are going to sleep. "That's just the one time when everyone has to get naked, and when I'm sitting at my desk looking out the window. It's so much more interesting to see someone walk perfectly unashamed across their common room and check their e-mail in the nude than to check your own e-mail...
...side of Harvard's world of undercover observation is non-visual apprehension: what we don't see may be the most interesting action. Literally, that is. Harvard's architects seem to have had a special bias towards the connecting fire door; great for fires, but also an amazing audio window into the lives of neighbors...
...each other," explains Liz L. Sarles '01. The two watchers discovered, through subsequent and conversations at Annenberg, that they knew each other through mutual friends. "We didn't know each other that well, but it was just sort of something we'd talk about." agrees the guy behind the window, Terence S. Carter '01. He says, "No, we're not dating or anything--we're just good friends." Carter explains that it's just sort of a ritual or game between the two rooms, to check out what's going on across the way. "We're close, so it doesn...
...kind of a wild one--the window looks out into their common room, so sometimes I'll see her doing some wild stuff. You know." Terence declines to get more specific about just what "wild" means...
Terence is also quick to point out that their lighthearted diversions are really nothing compared to what goes on elsewhere in the Yard. Things are easier so see, because windows are at pedestrian level, and the dorms are very close together. Terence mentions a neighbor who has a room facing Thayer and who swears that "there's this one couple who completely show off." He agrees, too, that there are some things that you just don't watch. "We were talking about this [particular room across the way], and we looked out the window, and in a room right next...