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First-years heard the horror stories about the dread of the "bum, bum, budum, bum" of a cappella groups, but never fully understood the true terror until the jams kept coming with no end in sight. Weekend after weekend after weekend after weekend a different group vied for their money and struck fear into their hearts. But the end has come. The Harvard-Yale Jam, features The Radcliffe Pitches, The Harvard Din and Tonics, Dukes Men of Yale and Yale Whim N Rhythm. Prove that you're hardcore and make it to the encore. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre...
...another saint, the public was happy either way. Hating a Liston was just as much fun as respecting a Patterson, and just as painful for the victim-challenger. In brilliant sketches of the archetypes, Remnick suggests Liston was trapped in his badness--people wanted him to be a bum forever--while Patterson lived in constant fear of not being good enough...
...bum a bullet...
...sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach to visit when the takes a break from working his farm in the beautiful inland hills. There, according to Jelly-Man, he "grows everyt'ing: Sugar cane, potatoes, ganga...
...grade. McMullen, a millionaire, spent $475,000, including $227,000 of his own money. Tuttle lives on Social Security and spent $200, mostly for Porta-Potti's at his nickel-a-plate "FredFest" fund raiser. McMullen ran ads and crisscrossed the state. Tuttle sat on his porch nursing his bum knee, venturing out for debates only in the campaign's last week. Tuttle beat McMullen, 24,561 votes...