Word: bashing
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Champagne rained on Saturday night in Pforzheimer House, as its latest bash sought to embody the spirit of hip-hop artist Fat Joe’s song “Make It Rain.” Fliers told prospective party-goers that Pfoho would be “the picture of extravagance,” complete with a red carpet, velvet ropes, a free bottle of champagne for legal-age guests, and stacks of cash—purportedly 180,000 individual bills—with which to “make it rain...
Halloween isn't what it used to be on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Last Sunday, the main gathering point for the university town's annual Halloween bash saw a throng of heavily boozed cross-dressers, walking food products and pop-culture oddities slowly crawling about at almost 1:30 Sunday morning, closing time here. But Molly Kelley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven-block stretch. "Two years ago this place was packed like sardines," she says. "You couldn't move. Either...
...many GOP veterans expected. While Giuliani raised $10 million and has $16 million on hand, Romney's quiet self-subsidy of more than $8 million means that he too will have the money for the main event of the Republican race this fall and winter: the head to head bash-a-thon in which the two men accuse the other on the stump and in paid advertising of being soft on abortion, gay marriage, immigration, stem cells, taxes and spending, and the war on terror...
...want to know. Thinking of players as real human beings, with identities off the field, spoils the fantasy. Atlanta Falcons fans don't care that Michael Vick is going to jail for torturing dogs; they care that without him, their team is 0-2. The media often bash athletes for being greedy and irresponsible, for caring only about themselves and not about us. But why should they? We don't really care about them...
Thinking of players as real human beings, with identities off the field, spoils the fantasy. Atlanta Falcons fans don't care that Michael Vick is going to jail for torturing dogs; they care that without him, their team is 0-2. The media often bash athletes for being greedy and irresponsible, for caring only about themselves and not about us. But why should they? We don't really care about them...