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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...roommates being the wiser. No rubber bands on the doorknob. No midnight exiles. No morning shaming. Currier had previously been free of all the natural built-in deterrents that make students stop, think, and just say “No, I will not turn my room into a den of immorality.” But now, thanks to the generous purchase of the cushy one-body-only-please mattresses—subsidized with funding from Currier’s summer tenant, the Graduate School of Education—Currier students have an opportunity to finally break free from the suffocating...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Narrow Proposition | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...Unable to beard the Shi'ite lion in its den, the U.S. and Iraqi commanders have reverted to the tactics they have periodically employed - with little effect - against Sunni insurgents and terrorists in Baghdad over the past three years: cordoning entire neighborhoods, intensive patrolling, house-to-house searches, surprise raids. But at best, these measures have brought only temporary relief. Militias and insurgents know to disappear when the U.S. military arrives. Past experience shows that once the soldiers move on, the violence returns. After three days of extended curfews and intensive patrolling in Amariyah, a mainly Sunni neighborhood that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Journal: Why the U.S. Can't Stop the Killing | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...Square-wide effort started off with an individual cause. After her father was diagnosed with breast cancer, Pamela Giller—a former bartender at Grendel’s Den and current Assistant Director of Student Care at Lesley University—approached Grendel’s owner, Kari Kuelzer, seeking help to raise money for a family breast cancer walk...

Author: By Vilsa E. Curto, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Raise Funds For Cancer Studies | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...swimming again, doing a furious 70 laps at dawn in the neighborhood pool. She planted milkweed to attract the butterflies that she and Noah loved. In a rare confession, she told Rusty she felt she had "failed" at the simple life in the bus. But she turned the front den into a classroom to home school Noah and the other kids. When they studied horses, they read Black Beauty and went riding real ones. When they were learning about Indians, she crafted a cardboard diorama including pretend deerskin stretched across twigs. To show off musical instruments, they paraded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

Think you're not still living the same reality show? Think again. It's no accident that employees in the workplace instinctively know which person to send into the lion's den of the corner office with a risky proposal or a bit of bad news. And it's no coincidence that the sense of hurt feelings and adolescent envy you get when that same colleague emerges with the proposal approved and the boss's applause seems so familiar. But what you summon up with the feelings you first had long ago is the knowledge you gained then too--that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Siblings | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

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