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...Abra Quadbra! Pfoho residents got a break from the pressures of reading period Wednesday night when Samuel A. Wright, a Pfoho night guard of two years, put on a magic show at a special study break in the dining hall...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfocus Pocus | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...family to be crossed: the clan is known to run its own private army; some estimates put its strength at between 200 and 500 men. To be sure, warlordism is not unique to Mindanao; it afflicts other parts of the archipelago and the northern province of Abra is practically a byword for political vendettas. But it is highly prevalent in Mindanao's conflict-affected areas where there is a large array of armed groups that include separatist rebels, civilian militias and well-established crime syndicates. Not surprisingly, the massacre has intensified calls on the authorities to disband these private armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Philippines' Maguindanao Massacre | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson defense will rely on sophomores Jennifer Skinner and Abra Kinkopf and junior Emily Haigh to step up and fill in for the departed blue-liners...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deep Thoughts For W. Hockey | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

While at Deerfield Academy, the alma mater of two upperclassmen skaters in junior Kat Sweet and sophomore Abra Kinkopf, Vitt handled pressure well in the goal, leading Deerfield to admirable heights...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Harvard's Service: Calling on '007 | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

That brash spirit is most evident today at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, where Shepard was enrolled. Few students remember him personally. Optimism, not residual fear, prevails in the busy campus gay group, Spectrum. Abra Soule, 20, has been out as a bisexual since high school in Rock Springs, Wyo. After another girl outed her, Soule, then just 15, didn't try to hide. "And that actually helped... I just stated it and said, 'Yeah, this is who I am.'" She was never threatened. In fact, there was something of a school-wide shrug: many kids told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face Of Gay Power | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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