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...Next step? Tutor Jade d’Alpoim Guedes is trying to approve the installation of a brick-oven pizza so Adamsians can enjoy homemade pizza for Carpe Noctem. Other houses, are you up to the challenge...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Spirit in Adams House | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...magnitude shock on Oct. 8, 1865. Mark Twain witnessed the event and wrote about it in his memoir, Roughing It: "[T]he ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. Never was solemn solitude turned into teeming life quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Big One' | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...veins thrumming. But her maidenly soul, however it quivered, could not ignore the command from on high. Roxanna felt herself drawn outside, as she always did during times of trial. In the garden, the air was cool with the promise of autumn. The vines twined themselves about the tall brick walls and the statues stood serenely, untouched except by the elements. She trailed her fingertips through the clear water of her favorite fountain, in the pool of which a young stone maiden lay prostate at the feet of a scholarly hero, who held an open book aloft in one strong...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 11 | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...appearing at the door on the off chance that an in-person cold call will quickly lead to work in an area hard hit by rising unemployment. "All of a sudden in 2008, people are just coming in blindly," says Kerry Tracey, founder and president of the firm. "From brick layers and carpenters to attorneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment: The Problem That May Linger | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...frankly, his opinion of the gentlemanly English star who, as Dr. Dolittle, at least tried talking to the animals, is as mean-spirited as it is unpublishable on a family-oriented website. Far better is his elegant demolition of Mrs Fairbanks, who, he writes, was in truth "an absolute brick. I just didn't see in her that bloodcurdlingly shallow and avaricious gold-digger everyone tells you she became after Doug's death, when she was briefly and lucratively married to Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autobiography of Tarzan's Cheeta | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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