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...Landrieu managed to galvanize just enough of her crucial African-American base to break ahead. Her victory leaves the Republicans with a slim majority in the Senate and Democrats with a key lesson. If they're going to have a chance in 2004, Democrats will have to crack Bush's hold on the South. Landrieu just might be able to teach them how. --By Lev Grossman
...thought they were just garden-variety alcoholics. In fact, the FM crack staff also get their kicks from Boggle. Boggle, for the unconverted amongst you, is a surprisingly addictive word-search game where one hunts forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally in a grid of lettered cubes. Though some use a 4-by-4 grid, FM favors the deluxe 5-by-5 model for, as the box reads, “those BOGGLE lovers who can’t stop connecting letters to spell words and collect more points.” True! In the space of three minutes...
...must be said that these may not have been the most interesting seniors, but they may have been the most persuasive. By the end of the night, it was difficult to resist a sudden calling to teach Christian tap dances to homeless crack babies...
...adversarial relationship this will undoubtedly create between professors and students. Once a few bad apples get caught, the trust the faculty and the administration presently grant students—most of whom are honest and hard-working—will be replaced by suspicion as teachers feel justified to crack down. Positive interactions with teachers will become much rarer as they devote more time to administrative reprisal; when students see professors as adversaries rather than partners in education, office hours attendance will plummet...
...Harvard’s two games against ranked opposition, only Peljto and sophomore Reka Cserny have managed to crack double-digits in scoring. Against Vanderbilt, Peljto put up 15 points and Cserny added 12, though Cserny did not score until four minutes into the second frame...