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...like the sentiment,” Sperduto said, standing in front of an eight-foot long sign of the ticket’s name. “I think that the UC takes itself way too seriously...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts and Janie M. Tankard, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: One Campaign Seeks To ‘Go Deep’ | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...estranged wife each day for 40 days. He is encouraged in this by a coworker at the firehouse, Michael (Ken Bevel), who tells him, "Don't follow your heart, man, because your heart can deceive you. Lead your heart." Caleb's father keeps pushing the mission, under an eight-foot cross down by the river bank, and when things get rocky the father tells his wife, "We've got to start praying more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would Jesus See: Fireproof or Religulous? | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...department store, Tourism Ireland photo displays showcased Irish monuments, Irish people, and Irish ales. Employees handed out pamphlets on study-abroad and travel. Women in fitted and fringed orange sportsuits handed out samples of Bailey's toffee liqueur. Nearly blocking a speaker at the front of the stage, an eight-foot tall poster advertised cheap flights between the two capitals. Tourism Ireland has since 1995 been promoting St. Patrick's Day parades in cities around the world such as Tokyo, Singapore and Moscow. This year two cities were added to the roster: Beijing, and the digital world of "Second Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. Patrick in the Middle Kingdom | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

...Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, had just pulled up to the gate when he felt his bulletproof car leap in the air from the force of the blast. "I thought it was a landmine," he said. The rose garden at police headquarters, protected from the street by a thick, eight-foot wall, was littered with broken glass, charred metal and body parts. "They were recognizable as human," says day laborer Abdul Moman, who was working in the garden, "but we couldn?t identify what parts they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Target: The Afghan Police | 6/17/2007 | See Source »

...crisis. Only the EAC remained. In a bizarre twist of fate, I had become its co-chair by my freshman spring. The previous fall, we had worked tirelessly on a referendum calling for an optional termbill fee that would go towards wind energy. To boost publicity, I built an eight-foot windmill with my bare hands. We yelled, we postered, we e-mailed, and the referendum passed with a resounding 82 percent of the vote. That spring, however, the administrators all shook their heads in unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat expressly forbidding termbill fees. We found ourselves...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Being Green and Suave | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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