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Each team at the NDA nationals is required to come up with an original theme, communicated through movement and music. Beyond the actual dancing on stage, costume and music choice factor heavily into a team’s score at nationals. In the past, CDT has always received high ratings for its artistic presence. Last year the team had a “Diamonds” theme, complete with conservative pink costumes and songs like Moulin Rouge’s rendition of “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend...
Harvard has always been chock-full of dynamite students. But 200 years ago, a Harvard secret society wielded actual dynamite, which they used multiple times to blow up the famous water pump in front of Stoughton Hall. Long before The Crimson editorialized and The Lampoon lampooned, an elite Harvard society banded together against the administration, painting the town red and the John Harvard statue a similar crimson...
Trouble first struck the group in 1824, in fact, when Alexander I took his honorary Med. Fac. degree a bit too seriously, donating a set of sterling silver surgical instruments to the actual Medical Faculty of Harvard as a sign of gratitude...
...account for the declining value of their players. In addition, the clubs often count long-term deferred compensation to players as a current expense. George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, admits that only a small portion of his team's $9 million 1984 deficit was an actual cash loss...
There was, take your seats please, actual convention business as well, and the hottest topic of the general sessions was international terrorism. In her keynote address at Royal Albert Hall, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke angrily of a newly "fashionable heresy," that "if you feel sufficiently strongly about some particular issue, be it nuclear weapons, racial discrimination or animal liberation, you are entitled to claim superiority to the law and are therefore absolved." Thatcher argued that terrorists were increasingly active, in part, because news attention encouraged them. The P.M. told the lawyers, to repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain...