I was the only one of my friends-all of us academic transplants, all soldiers of art stationed on a far-off base (or so we imagined it) -who hadn't had something terrible happen to her yet.
It was part laboratory, part playground, part fraternity house, part battlefield, part university library, part modern art museum, part expedition base camp.
They brought state-of-the-art technology to the task of mobilizing their base, and centralized power in the House of Representatives in order to enhance party discipline.