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Homebuilders are eager to start reconstruction--some 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone need to be rebuilt--but supplies may be tight as the city is an import hub for cement and other building materials. Plywood will probably cost more for a while; after Hurricane Andrew, the price shot from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion Dollar Blowout: Billion Dollar Blowout | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...whisper-quick fragments, the scenes he has experienced on the streets of Lhasa, then and now. Like many a romantic tourist, Barnett knew little about Tibet when he arrived in Lhasa in October 1987 and suddenly found himself witness and even party to a violent uprising against Chinese rule. Eager to help a wounded Tibetan at one point, he bangs on the doors of the compound where the man is hiding?and realizes, too late, that he has thus drawn the Chinese authorities to the fugitive. To Barnett, such misunderstandings are part of a long history of foreign interventions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game Over | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...Even if there is no particular superstar, Jonah C. Priour ’09 is definitely the show’s darling as the shy and hickish cowboy with his ceaseless spout of “Mama says.” His exaggerated western drawl, slouched walk, and eager country boy expressions are indisputably the icing of the show. Priour seems born for the part, effortlessly transitioning from his role this past March as the slick Billy Flynn in “Chicago.”Good choreography is a necessary force for any musical...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cast Kicks Off Its Shoes to Success | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

With $158.30 worth of household cleaners in my shopping bags, I was eager to begin. But after I unloaded the products--most of them familiar, Donna Reed--ish brands of my youth--I first sat down to study their labels. Along with my new dust-bunny awareness, I've become hyperconscious of anything else my baby might potentially mouth or chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haz-Mats At Home? | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...tell you, it was truly our pleasure.But at some point in the last few weeks we looked back upon our four years of broken dreams and sexual frustration, and suddenly nostalgia washed over us in an awesome wave. Who would have figured four years ago, when an over-eager, aggressively Catholic Catizone ran into an under-eager, socially awkward Schonberger at Pre-Frosh weekend, that we might actually be sad to say goodbye?Sure, we’re delighted to say goodbye to City Step jokers who dance like idiots in front of the Science Center. Goodbye to kids...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The End of a Chach-Filled Era | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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