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...tutor in Cabot, retrieved a master key to all I-entryway rooms and began grabbing laptops from rooms in an attempt to salvage students’ property. “With senior theses due right around the corner, we wanted to make sure the laptops didn’t drown,” Aktipis said. As news of the burst pipe spread, e-mails bemoaning the “shitwater” inundating I entryway started flooding Cabot’s open list. Anxious students were quickly calmed by e-mails from Fure and Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris...
...have been slow, not surprisingly, to commend Siniora's stand for freedom. But he has won the hearts of many Lebanese and enjoys broad support among Sunnis, Druze, Christians and some Shi'ites. When he sneaks from the Sérail for a rare meal outside, surprised restaurant patrons drown his arrival in applause. "He is a source of pride," says Elie Khoury, a leading pro-democracy activist who created the "I Love Life" advertising campaign to perk up Lebanese spirits. "We have a Prime Minister who is not performing like a politician." Adds Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a staunch...
...jumped into the river to help the Shi'ites says al-Obeidi "wasted his life for those animals." Hamza Muslawi refuses to talk about how many he himself saved, saying it fills him with shame. "If I see a Shi'ite child about to drown in the Tigris now," says the carpenter, "I will not reach my hand out to save him." In Khadamiya, too, the narrative about Aug. 31 has changed. Karrar Hussein, 28, was crossing the bridge when the stampede began. Ask him about al-Obeidi, and his cheerful demeanor quickly turns sour. "That is a myth," hisses...
...sonorous beat of “SexyBack” can be spent in the company of one sleek Apple device. Kicking back, you struggle to remember what life was like without the iPhone, back in that dark time before 2007. Thankfully, the memories quickly fade as you drown them out with the melodic crooning of Justin Timberlake and the obnoxious tones of Aleksey Vayner...
...course, not everyone purposefully wastes time in the café: I have seen a fair share of robots who—with ear buds in place to drown out the rumble of blenders and annoying giggles—can write a paper or pound through a sourcepack (or at least appear to). But even though these quasi-workers like to think of themselves as fitting with the traditional Lamont type, they have chosen the café as their place of work for a reason, and judging from their average weight, that rationale is not linked to their proximity to food...