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Just as I was starting breakfast, there had been a loud clap which in retrospect was the beginning of a torrential downpour. Starting out late for section and my mind filled with the day's tasks, I somehow didn't notice the amount of water on the ground or, for that matter, the rain rapidly soaking my fleece...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Dartboard: Come Again Some Other Day | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...only keeps growing. For one thing, stepping just looks so cool. Okay, maybe me stepping doesn't look particularly cool, but CityStep still has this incredible hold over me. I try out new rhythms on my way to the Crimson, and late at night I try the occasional little clap-kick-step in my room. I hold out hope that somewhere inside of me is an incredibly coordinated, cool and spunky stepper...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Stepping to Success | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...armed camps, enragedly quoting each other out of context, treasuring each "[sic]" like a captured enemy standard. People weren't a bunch of Voltairetrained parrots, who dutifully preface every rebuttal with a formulaic declaration of how earnestly they support the right of their opponents to speak, regardless of the clap-trap spoken. And today? The name "Al Gore" says...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Gore Says It All | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...particularly fond of our habit of polling ourselves to find out how dumb we are. Almost weekly you can find the papers reporting some study that shows Americans know squat about history or geography or our own Constitution. Then we all clap our hands to our foreheads and bemoan the national dumbness once more. The most recent studies show that 72.6% of Americans believe Alexis de Tocqueville never should have divorced Blake Carrington and 94.7% think Chad is a men's cologne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Jumble Out There | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Clap...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Dartboard | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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