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...right—regardless of the bizarre subculture that has developed around it. There is no better place to watch Hollywood stars than under the stars. (Although, I have to say, last summer I watched The Matrix outdoors, and by the end I was shivering cold with an excruciating cramp in my leg.) Being outdoors is nice, and so is watching a movie: why not combine the two? Better yet, throw in a car, and you’ve got just the right combination of privacy and risk of getting caught that leads directly to cuddling and making...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Last Picture Show | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

...right—regardless of the bizarre subculture that has developed around it. There is no better place to watch Hollywood stars than under the stars. (Although, I have to say, last summer I watched The Matrix outdoors, and by the end I was shivering cold with an excruciating cramp in my leg.) Being outdoors is nice, and so is watching a movie: why not combine the two? Better yet, throw in a car, and you’ve got just the right combination of privacy and risk of getting caught that leads directly to cuddling and making...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Last Picture Show | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

...think that perhaps I was subconsciously resistant to beginning a thesis. One of the major virtues of a senior thesis, I think, is that it distracts you from the fact that you’re almost done with college. In my youth, whenever I was struck by a foot cramp, my father would tell me to pinch my lip. Although this seems counterproductive and potentially masochistic, the trick works: The lip pain distracts you from the foot pain. The thesis process works in the same way: the immediate pain of the thesis distracts you from the deeper and less-easily...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Thinking About Theses | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 also pointed out that moving the start date of the fall semester earlier might deter faculty members from taking on positions as first-year advisers, since it would cramp the ends of their summers...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Split on J-Term Proposal | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

Similarly, Bienvenu (26:20.1) ran with a painful cramp as he finished a disappointing 209th...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: X.C. Struggles At Pre-Nationals | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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