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...pass the time, or maybe to break the competitive tension, they fall into the perennial Israeli custom of throwing out names and addresses to find a link. They find some: a barber, a cousin. I don’t take my eyes off the lines and the chief security attendant, except to watch the clock...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Standing By | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...come home at 11 p.m., and you're wound up, you go in the garage, get your wrenches, start working on stuff. Your hands get a little bloody, a little dirty, and you're ready for bed at 1 a.m.," he says, perhaps explaining why, in Rennick's custom-built Yucca Valley, Calif., home, the garage is bigger than the house. (Hey, something has to house the 1948 Minnesota fire truck he just bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobby Heaven | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

This outcry is common in Lahiri’s work. For so many of her characters, the difficulty of acclimating to a new lifestyle, so different in attitude and custom from their own, is troubling. Thus naming Gogol in The Namesake becomes all-important; without his grandmother’s name, the child will be truly cut from his Bengali roots...

Author: By Joseph L. Dimento, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Having Made Name for Self, Lahiri Pens ‘Namesake’ | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

...final say in Kane’s appointment, has said that he wants the Harvard Educational Resource System (HERS2) in place by the end of the year. He requested that Kane and his colleagues draw up a plan for the implementation of the custom-made database...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Registrar Juggles Behind the Scenes | 9/12/2003 | See Source »

Even with modest expectations, the opening round of multilateral talks on North Korea's nuclear-weapons plans in Beijing last week was less than successful. Diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan left the six-sided bargaining table--custom-built for the talks--with no real progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Talk In China | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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