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...later, a fellow reveler came over and graciously poured her own sympathy on her sick comrade...Nearby, an out-of-town guest got a taste of Harvard life atop the bar. But the sweetness was short-lived as he soon found himself locked in the bathroom (while in the buff) of one female undergrad. Luckily, mommy and daddy were more than willing to save the day...New trend on campus—getting trashed with a certain Mr. Cheeks? Furry friends and Friday nights apparently mix well...One senior ’Poonster got intimate with the family Nanny...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chatter | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny makeshift movie halls fashioned from cardboard. When the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, he joined the mujahedin guerrillas, eventually forming the documentary-film unit for rebel commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. (Massoud, also a film buff, introduced Barmak to Casablanca, Spartacus and Platoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Great Film Hope | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...Nearby is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a modern, multi-media complex that houses one of the best collections of Lincoln materials in the world. As Illinois State Historian Thomas Schwartz explained to me recently, Springfield had the good fortune to have a Lincoln buff serving as governor during the Great Depression. He budgeted for acquisitions at a time when prices were low. "We were able to collect material at a time when there was not much interest and not much money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporter's Notebook: Visiting Lincoln's Springfield | 2/14/2009 | See Source »

...Internet buff's lawyer and supporters, including many members of the opposition party, say the purported charge is erroneous because the government, led by the Grand National Party, did indeed ask for dollar buying to be reined in. They further allege that the move reflects a concerted effort by the current conservative government to suppress freedom of speech in cyberspace, especially if it is anti-government in nature. "It's back to the past" says Song Yong Gil, a member of the opposition Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul Cracks Down on an Internet Financial Guru | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...came to Mumbai in the possession of a 19th century British antiquarian grandee, the imperially named Mountstuart Elphinstone, and has stayed in the city ever since despite numerous attempts by the Italian government to repatriate it. In the 1930s, rumor has it, dictator Benito Mussolini was keen to buff his fascist pedigree by retrieving the epic and offered the Society one million pounds for it, a staggering sum at the time. But the Society politely refused. By doing so, it seemed to say that Mumbai could also be a home for Dante's imagined voyage through the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Divine Comedy of Mumbai | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

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