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NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House, after banning the age-old practice of smoking in the Capitol lobby. Smoking is, however, still allowed in Representatives' private offices and other places on Capitol Hill, including a cafeteria in the Senate building...
...smudged with the sage in order to go forth in our day with a positive attitude,” said Leonard, referring to an age-old tradition of passing the bowl with the burning sage with each person in the circle fanning the smoke around themselves...
...Israel and a determination to rid the region of U.S. influence. Hizballah calculates that by toppling the Western-backed government in Beirut, U.S. influence in Lebanon and the wider region will be curbed. The conflict playing out in Lebanon, then, may not simply be based on the country's age-old sectarian tensions, but in a regional power struggle that pits the U.S. and its Sunni-Arab allies against Iran and its anti-Western Arab partners. And that may be why Ahmad Mahmoud is unlikely to be the last casualty of Lebanon's political turmoil...
Tired of clicking through anonymous hotties’ Facebook profiles, you pervert? MissFacebook.com, co-created by Daniel M. Wallace ’08, simplifies the process, offering visitors the chance to answer the age-old question of who is the fairest (co-ed) of them all. A combination of Facebook and HotOrNot.com, the Web site juxtaposes pictures of hot girls; visitors click on the one they deem hotter. “There are all these groups on Facebook like ‘The Hottest Freshman Girls’ and we wanted to democratize that process,” Wallace says...
...sake of being “original.” The evening began with the one play that could have benefited from a bit of creative tinkering. Ives’ short work, “Words, Words, Words,” is a humorous postmodern farce that contemplates the age-old question, “What are the chances that three chimps in captivity on typewriters will reproduce ‘Hamlet?’” The humor comes from a myriad of literary references, including the chimps’ constant, oblivious mutterings of Shakespearean lines.Playing the three...