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...Undergrads traditionally respond with a passive-aggressive temper tantrum that befits the world’s most gifted children. Amid the moans and groans and the predictable panic, they end up looking like that guy from the first Austin Powers movie who gets run over by a slow-moving steamroller—screaming helplessly in terror before being squashed...
...stood under a sheet, with one manipulating the two-fingered arms and another holding the top half of the T-Rex’s massive jaw. The scene when this beast attacked the visitors’ cars was a marvel of homemade choreography and powerful sound effects. And even amid the violence and sex and nonsense, there was something strangely moving about the show’s unexplained interlude, during which musical director Connor Kizer came onstage and sang self-written lyrics to the movie’s theme song: “Jurassic Park it?...
...failed attempts to control the crowd. After the announcement that the concert was ending, the DJ apologized and said that if it were up to him, he would continue playing and asked if there was “a house somewhere [he] could go, right now.” Amid cries to move to a final club or the Hasty Pudding, students lingered outside of University Hall to find out where Gillis was going. According to McCoy, he returned to his hotel. “It was the most unsuccessful successful show ever,” Leah E. Boch...
...Keeping Gates would make for a smoother transition amid two wars. (But that's why the uniformed military leaders who are actually running the wars, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, don't change when a new Administration takes over...
...grew at an annual rate of 19% in October, some economists believe that could fall below 10% by the end of the year because of lower Christmas-season orders for products like electronics. And China's notoriously thrifty consumers haven't made up for the drop in foreign demand. Amid the global turmoil, their expectations for rising incomes are at the lowest level recorded in years. All of that threatens to turn Dongxiaokou from the epicenter of a bustling recycling economy into a massive junkyard...