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...then there was a plan. Out of a late-night meeting, in the dank basement of University Hall, came an ingenious proposal to fill the void left by the tailgate’s evisceration—by making the days leading up to The Game the most exciting of the year. The idea was remarkably simple: have the College’s 12 House Committees (HoCos) cooperate to plan large campus-wide parties in House common spaces on the Thursday and Friday evenings before the Harvard-Yale game. By focusing the student body’s party-throwing energies...
...wouldn’t think so, but it actually takes up quite a bit of time. During the week, I periodically get hate mail from PETA and weirdoes from Canada. On the weekends, I get bombarded with fashion questions while I am pretending to have fun at whatever dank and uncivilized gathering I happen to be attending...
...phone. So now, for three days, they are donning hard hats and tool belts, and building wooden wall frames for some of the 26 houses Habitat is constructing in Cluj. One will go to the Parauan family: five people who now live in one tiny room of a dank, Ceausescu-era tower block, which the executives visit for a stark reality check. Whoops of delight rise up when the first frames are hauled into place and a house starts to take shape. "Sometimes I feel like I've sold my soul, working for a multinational," says Katerina Pette...
...York Times estimated his fortune at more than $2 billion. Over seven generations, the jewelry-mad Nizams had built up an unparalleled collection of gems: their pearls alone, the Times reported, would "pave Broadway from Times Square to Columbus Circle." But the Nizams' obsession with stuffing their dank chambers with priceless diamonds and then forgetting all about them seems, in retrospect, like a symptom of a deep-rooted anxiety about the dynasty's security. They were Muslim princes ruling, often brutally, over a mostly Hindu part of India, and their reign was always tenuous. It ended in 1948, when independent...
...White House spokesman Tony Snow holds the last press conference in the JAMES BRADY BRIEFING ROOM before the corps moves across the street and the dank former swimming pool gets a high-tech makeover. Even money on whether Bush will ever let the press back...