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This past weekend, the Crimson scored on six-of-seven straight shots on the Colgate net in the second period to extend its lead to 10-0 by the end of the half. When the dust settled, the Crimson walked away with...
...When the dust has settled on the new systems, ADAPT will have changed the way Harvard works for the better, says Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, the University's vice president for finance...
Listening to his music, I heard the tunes that I would record if I knew how to play guitar. "The sun goes into her room/and catches the dust in flight/and gently warms the mattress/ that Katie's resting on./Carefully she puts down her viola/next to the kitten on her lap/and when she wants to say its name/she remembers it has none./Uh-huh." I cried a cry that only one Joel Stein can cry for the unnamed cat of another Joel Stein...
...ready to take my chances. Ready to dust off that oath of last October, the one about following orders, and take The Shot and be a soldier. But until that order comes, incontrovertible, with The Shot at one end and a dishonorable discharge at the other, I will keep trying to wriggle my way out of this, as honorably as I can. I'm still working the phone, talking to the Army's people who can sometimes enforce the Army's regulations at their discretion. It's going to be a bummer either...
Granted, Mendelson's overwhelming attention to dust mites, food pathogens and spores can be so constant and so alarming that a better title for her book might have been Life: The Silent Killer. Not only are the things necessary for survival--food, clothing, water--impending Petri dishes of doom, the products used to clean these things may very well be contaminated. Mendelson describes sponges the way Alan Keyes talks about the "radical homosexual agenda"--breeders of bacteria threatening our very way of life. Since there's no way I'm together enough to constantly launder a pile of rags...