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...Club hard drives and wreak havoc. Rather, the term “hack” at MIT refers to any sly, intricately planned prank committed by a group of students on campus; this particular group of students were caught after slinking around the Faculty Room and setting off an alarm. Although it is unclear exactly what the students intended to accomplish, they apparently pried off a wall panel and exposed a crawl space...
Since early 2000, economists have been sounding the housing bubble alarm with increasing urgency. And while many markets around the country have seen prices drop in the last year, the dire, across-the-board correction that many predicted has yet to materialize...
...book. For her, anything jerk involves "sleaziness, out of control materialism, upward striving, tension, financial problems, selfishness and misery." The early chapters gleefully kick over the rock of the American family. One story, "Wiseguys," for example, details her "loser" father's various bottom-feeding money schemes, including a burglar alarm company whose name, "B.A.R.G." he explained was "grab spelled backwards! And our motto is 'grab your money and run!'" Another story tells of how her little brother, who was a little too "sensitive" for such ambitious parents, suffered endless acrimony. His fantasy for his teddy bear was that "teddy wants...
...students did not receive an e-mail notifying them of the good news. “They made an announcement on an intercom that I didn’t even know we had,” said Brettman. According to Levesque, the intercom is part of the fire-alarm system and connects to all the suites in New Quincy. He used it to let students know what was going on throughout the night. “It was the first time I tried it out,” he said, noting that the system worked well. Since the flooding, repairs...
...your unwashed hipster dance gear out of the closet, fire up the barbecue, tell Dave Chappelle to go home, and prepare for the real Bloc Party. Nearly two years after their debut album “Silent Alarm,” Bloc Party released their sophomore effort Tuesday to the waiting arms of their ever-growing fan base of indie lovers and adventurous, dabbling mainstreamers. The band worked on the album with Garret “Jacknife” Lee, who has produced albums by Kasabian, Snow Patrol, and U2. The resulting LP, “A Weekend...