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...while her college career might have ended on a bittersweet note, nothing can dampen the highlights of one of the greatest careers in Crimson history...
...slept together around her on the floor," he wrote. Another of his early memories was the arrest of his father and uncle on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation" during a wave of Stalinist terror in 1934. The experience - the men spent three years in the Gulag - seemed not to dampen a rebellious streak that showed early in his life. Yeltsin recounted several occasions on which he was disciplined in school for fighting or for organizing pranks, once persuading all the students in his classroom to climb out a window and run away from a teacher they disliked. Another time...
...Tuesday, klappermeister-in-training Brian Kennedy ’09 focused on ringing the largest bell, a 13-ton mammoth nicknamed “Mother Earth.” During yesterday’s practice, Ogryzkov noticed that student Molly J. Hester ’08 used earplugs to dampen the bellowing sounds from the 700-pound clapper of “Mother Earth.” Since Ogryzkov does not use earplugs, Hester said he was “a real bell ringer.” Responding with the help of a translator, Ogryzkov replied...
...police was trying to rob him and a female companion at gunpoint near the French Quarter. Then there's the possibility that a gun will be stolen and used in other crimes. But as long as the sense of being under siege persists, such concerns aren't likely to dampen sales of guns, pepper spray, guard dogs and other weapons in New Orleans...
...While the hullabaloo over 300 may dampen Iranians' holiday spirits, it offers common cause between people and their estranged government. Top officials and parliament have scorned the film as though it were a matter of state, and for the first time in a long while, taxi drivers are shaking their fists in agreement when the state news comes on. Agreeing that 300 is egregious drivel is fairly easy. I'm relatively mellow as Iranian nationalists go, and even I found myself applauding when the government spokesman described the film as fabrication and insult. Iranians view the Achaemenid empire...