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...summer. Lidia Rekas, who has known Shakir since they were both in fifth grade, said that her last memory of Shakir was when Shakir helped her prepare for the Graduate Management Admission Test. “We stayed up all night and ate pizza and I slept on her couch that night,” Rekas said. “Shirin’s absence leaves me with a huge hole in my heart.” Rekas, a frequent triathlon competitor, said that she was participating in the Ironman, considered the most grueling of triathlons, in July, and that...
...SHIFRA B. MINCERCrimson Staff WriterLouisa Solano first walked into a dusty Grolier Poetry Shop, nestled on tree-lined Plympton Street, when she was 15 years old. Used books were piled on a couch, along with the store owner’s mail. Despite the disarray, she immediately fell in love with the shop.“Someday I am going to own this store,” she said to herself. “When I told my mother that. she said: ‘Be careful what you wish for. You might...
Louisa Solano first walked into a dusty Grolier Poetry Shop, nestled on tree-lined Plympton Street, when she was 15 years old. Used books were piled on a couch, along with the store owner’s mail. Despite the disarray, she immediately fell in love with the shop...
Even the most dedicated video gamers, Web surfers and couch potatoes long for an occasional escape from electronic amusement. For old-fashioned fun, many Americans are going back to family board games--sales were up 18% in 2005--and discovering that there's a fresh new crop every year. Here's a sampling of the latest in living-room play...
Honey, however, is hardly the only example of puritainment out there; there is an entire genre answering some unspoken yearning of viewers to have their TVs whip their decadent couch-potato butts into shape, or at least to watch it happen to someone else. Nanny 911, Supernanny, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, Wife Swap, Cold Turkey--in all of them, someone comes in to impose "tough new rules" on participants who stand in for us in weak-willed lumpy America. Lose weight! Quit smoking! Be a better parent! Millions of Americans gladly, masochistically sit down to be lectured...