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Ashanti Decker’s common room is a model of modern comfort, with seating for twenty, plush, fluffy pillows, a coffee table cluttered with candles and ashtrays, and a silvery blue curtain adorning her window. “Sorry it’s such a mess,” she says, explaining that she spent the previous night (Monday) clubbing and was still a little out of it. At first glance, Decker appears the modest girl from Phoenix, Arizona, well on her way to a career in I-banking. But she’s sweet, ambitious and a whole...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Drumroll Please | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...each one helped me a little more than the last. Eventually I had all of the tools and information to recover, but I had lived that way for so long—ten years at that point—I kept fighting to preserve the boundaries of my little comfort zone. I was terrified of what life was like on the other side. I couldn’t put one foot in front of the other and move forward into a world that seemed so uncertain. Then one day I just got tired of living in fear...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Me Over | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

McCarthy said the addition of more students to Wolbach and Jordan would not come “at the sacrifice of student comfort...

Author: By George Bradt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quad Renovations To Address Overcrowding | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...charge sounds suitably dramatic, legally, treason is a pretty tricky crime to prove (and is punishable by death). Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution reads, "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Walker may well have fulfilled those requirements, but there's more. A defendant may be convicted only "on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." Will two fellow fighters come forward to offer witness accounts of Walker's crime? Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did John Walker Join a Cult? | 12/5/2001 | See Source »

...profound metaphors for man's struggle against the universe, among other things. Sort of a cartoon "Waiting for Godot," I guess. Something about the ease with which the characters got adopted by commercial interests gives me doubts about this. After so many years "Peanuts" began to feel more like comfort-art than anything challenging. But really, just entertaining the idea of Schulz's work as more than doodles means that it has artistic merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Peanuts' Reconsidered | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

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