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...covered as a young freshman were the men’s basketball team’s annual jaunt to Penn and Princeton. Unfortunately, the writer who was to come along got sick, and so it was up to me to forge ahead alone. I couldn’t borrow a car, so I went to the only place that rented to those under 21: Allston’s venerable “EZ Auto”. At the Crimson, we expense-account everything, so I had no qualms (even though I had been told not to) about tacking...
...felt really bad for the guy,” Rose said. “He ended up having to just borrow someone else’s sword, and I think it really shook him up. But it was probably a mismatch to begin with...
...only Edgar Bronfman Jr. could borrow the powers of God, like Jim Carrey in Universal Pictures' Bruce Almighty. Then the former CEO of Seagram, the distiller that once owned Universal, could turn back time and erase the disastrous sale of the firm his family founded to France's Vivendi. Since that deal in December 2000, Vivendi Universal's stock has dropped 71%, devastating the Bronfman family fortune. And Edgar Jr., despite some successes at Seagram, has reinforced his image as dilettante and wannabe mogul. Business Week crowned him one of the worst managers of 2002, and New York magazine called...
...member American Library Association passed a resolution opposing "any use of governmental power to suppress...or to intimidate individuals exercising free inquiry." They are also protesting in more subtle ways. Signs in the public libraries of Santa Cruz, Calif., warn that "records of the books and other materials you borrow from this library may be obtained by federal agents." At the end of each day, Schaumburg, Ill., library employees delete the names of those who have used computers. At a library in nearby Bridgeview, computer sign-up sheets have been eradicated altogether...
...Crimson editorial staff unaware of the fact that there are many Yankee fans in its midst? Is it unaware of the high representation of students from the New York metropolitan area (and Yankee fans from other parts of the world)? To borrow a sentiment from a popular Cambridge bumper sticker: They’re not MY team...