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...sole scrape. Beginning at the instep and ending just below the knee, Grabby's left shin was scraped almost clear of skin." As Daeschner explains, it wasn't only blood sport that scuppered the Olimpicks and other festivals like it. It was also the attendant vice and brawls between drunken fans from rival villages or religions. Since its revival in 1951, the Cotswold Olimpicks have been a quieter, more bucolic affair, albeit imbued with what Daeschner, 34, a Colorado-born U.K. resident, describes as the "secular trinity that made Britain what it is today: Land, Booze and Patriotism." In truth...
...14th century monastery, and engaged NATO troops in running battles. At least 28 people were killed and 600 wounded, including dozens of U.N. and NATO peacekeepers. "These were ethnic attacks, pure and simple," said a diplomat. And as the region knows too well, violence begets violence. In Serbia itself, drunken football fans and others vowing revenge on "Albanian terrorists" torched two mosques, including one from the 17th century that had miraculously survived the Bosnian war. Crowds moved on to smash the front windows at a local McDonald's. About 1,000 Kosovo Serbs have been evacuated to NATO bases inside...
...small amount of disappointing profiteering on the part of site owners Darren S. Morris ’05, Zachary A. Corker ’04 and Paul H. Hersh ’04, who make a marginal sum of money off of whatever number of photos of drunken Harvard students they actually manage to sell to unsuspecting visitors, but that feature is primarily in place to increase site traffic (surely this is the cause for hundreds of excited emails sent back to proud relatives “look mom, that’s that girl”) At any rate...
...your exclusive all male final’s club to discover that the oversized stuffed bear in the foyer is engulfed in flames. At a recent Spee event, decorative candles placed at the base of a giant and highly flammable stuffed bear were amazingly toyed with by drunken guests, giving Smokey something to really complain about. One of the many Spee’s to flee, Wes E. Stroberman ’04, claims to have been inspired to go outside and have a cigarette upon encountering the fire. When asked...
...veritable orchestra of instruments) come and go over ramshackle rhythms, sounding so nimble and newly alive they border on stream-of-consciousness. You’re bombarded on all sides by sounds from all times. It doesn’t hurt that Doom has the flow to match, a drunken rambling full of non-sequiturs and bizarre metaphors as jubilantly lyrical as anything from hip-hop’s early Nineties golden age. Sampladelic psychedelia at its best...