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...turns out most of the other Principals for a Day were famous, like Diane Sawyer and Jerry Seinfeld, so I think the kids and teachers were disappointed they got me. At one point the librarian asked me if I ever got bylines in TIME. I dug several issues out of her shelves and pointed to my articles ("If not for me, people would think Sisqo wears a thong"). She responded by asking me to sign a copy. Now I don't have much experience with autographs, but I'm pretty sure you don't normally sign them right after someone...
Before long, they turn up a suspiciously fresh skeleton in a government-protected archaeological site. Anil determines that these bones are indeed of recent vintage and that the body was originally buried elsewhere and then dug up and deposited on government land. She thinks she has found the evidence that will prove official murder. She tells her partner, "Some people let their ghosts die, some don't. Sarath, we can do something...
...Luckily, the Mount Holyoke girls dug the Harvard presence, and we bonded. My friend Carly complained that the party was “so high school.” Perhaps. It certainly was different from the typical weekend fare. There was no music. The lights were glaring. People largely stuck with their friends. And of course, there was the token slut—who interestingly enough served as a terrific ice breaker...
Harvard's second goal from senior attackman Lawson DeVries with 27 seconds left in the half made the score 9-2 in favor of the Bulldogs, as Harvard had dug itself into a first-half hole for the second straight time in Ivy League play...
...Cactus Hill presents still more corroboration. Taking its name from the prickly pears that grow at the site, it was discovered in 1988 by a sharp-eyed farmer named Harold Conover, who alerted researchers to some curious stone tools he had spotted in road sand dug up from an old pit nearby. In 1989, McAvoy's team began excavations, now sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the state of Virginia. So far, the team has unearthed a variety of Paleo-Indian stone tools shaped for hunting, butchering and processing game; charred bones of mud turtles, white-tailed deer...