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...scramble from the shower after hearing a fire alarm and stand outside your dorm in flip flops (and hopefully a towel), no doubt you have considered fire alarms more of a prankster’s delight than a constructive use of your Sunday night. But in 2001 alone, The Crimson reported a fire in the Eliot House Grille and an unidentified naked man in a Cabot bathroom. Last year, a convicted rapist lurked the Mather hallways posing as a fire inspector, and a burst toilet pipe flooded rooms and destroyed ceilings in Cabot. So while fire alarms might just seem...
...officials in Africa stopped stealing for a day, we could equip a peacekeeping force for Darfur and have enough left over to engage the Khartoum government in constructive dialogue to finally bring peace. Lucas Mboya Nairobi Stumbling Toward Democracy Andrew Marshall's viewpoint on Thailand's military coup, "Dictators' Delight" [Oct. 9], would have been more appropriately titled "A Dictator's Demise." Before the coup, the stress level of all educated and well-informed Thais was at an all-time high. It seemed inevitable that Thai blood would flow on Bangkok's streets. The army's intervention against Thaksin Shinawatra...
...This sense of humor and delight in all of the ups and downs made the pair an indispensable part off a young varsity looking to fill the shoes left them by the 2005 crew...
...unpleasantly anachronistic in her revisionism. Seamlessly integrating 80s post-punk in the most sublime of ways, there’s something undeniably lovely in her resuscitation of a dusty historical narrative, resisting stuffy reconstruction in favor of dreamily imaginative detail. Though ostensibly starring Jason Schwartzman in a delightfully dead-pan turn as the blundering Louis XVI, and the luminous, ethereal, and well cast Kirsten Dunst (reuniting with the director after their collaboration on “The Virgin Suicides”), special mention must be given to the film’s unbilled supporting standouts: Versailles itself...
...white people, by contrast, are out of control. A nurse named Greta, just off a 12-hour shift, tentatively reaches out to touch the Senator's sleeve. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I just touched a future President! I can't believe it!" She is literally shaking with delight--her voice is quivering--as she asks Obama for an autograph and then...