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...overly suspicious, unless their behavior makes me feel other ways,” she says. So those could be two freshmen sitting at the end of your table, or clever MIT students out on a late-night jog who got the munchies, or maybe even axe murderers. But don’t get any ideas. We wouldn’t want to make you paranoid...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fires, Asbestos, and Rapists, Oh My! | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...Charlie Rose of The Crimson. RR: I’m the Roving Reporter—I’m kind of a big deal. PM: In terms of your sexual prowess or your ability to play foosball while drunk?RR: What do you think about Larry Summers getting the axe? PM: I was writing in my courage journal one day that I have a crush on Larry. There, you got it out of me. You’re incredible the way you probe. RR: Are you concerned about the women at Harvard? PM: They’re not hairy enough...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comedians for a Cause | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

Cliff comes across as an attention-monger who appears more concerned about his image in newspapers than his own lab tests. And Robin comes across as a spoiled brat who only blows the whistle because she has an axe to grind with her ex. The characters’ antics sometimes go beyond the strange into the bizarre. While walking along the Charles River, the Stanford-educated Cliff comes up with a “profound idea” to “walk across the river.” He soon discovers that his idea isn?...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Integrity, Intrigue, and Infighting in the World of Science | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...Over in England, 2,500 employees of an insurance firm were fired by a group text message. The firm wanted everyone to hear the news at the same time, as if that was fairer. Instead, getting the axe by text only made the employees more offended. They looted the firm's offices of computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...Nuin Dunlop, 34, Damien Moran, 26, Karen Fallon, 35, and Deirdre Clancy, 36, of criminal damage to a U.S. Navy aircraft at Shannon Airport in February 2003; in Dublin. While the five antiwar activists admitted to causing $2.5 million of damage by attacking the plane with hammers and an axe, they said they were acting to protect lives and property in Iraq. The jury took less than five hours to reach a unanimous decision, an outcome the U.S. embassy plans to discuss with the Irish government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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