Word: epicent
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...miles of street vendors selling Barack Obama Hot Sauce between the Mall and our hotel room, where we eventually collapsed, sleeping through the parade on TV. The historical value of hearing Obama’s inaugural address in person can never be taken away from me. The experience was epic, emotional, and quintessentially American. But I learned something else that Tuesday–about why the market needs to be regulated and why you need barriers at a Girl Talk concert. People may be honorable individually or in small groups, but without stern and threatening enforcement, you just can?...
...Throughout the album, Springsteen largely alternates between getting his rock on and slowing down for a softer feel. Like on Springsteen’s previous album “Magic,” the E Street Band is much more prevalent and fleshes out the songs, giving them an epic quality, like on the dark and eight-minute long opener “Outlaw Pete,” a harrowing western tale about a man unable to escape his past. While their presence is well felt, one thing noticeably absent is Clarence “Big Man” Clemens...
...What did Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel over? KGB never responded to this question. Epic failure...
Concluding their final dual meet before the epic Harvard-Yale-Princeton matchup this coming weekend, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (7-0, 5-0 Ivy) celebrated its 169-119 win over Brown (1-4, 1-3) last Saturday in unusual fashion. With Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” resonating through the speakers, freshman swimmer Matthew McLean was carried around Blodgett Pool on a stretcher for a post-meet victory lap. However, the defeat of the Bears was significant in more ways than the simple maintenance of a perfect record...
Emanuel's sea trials have not been entirely smooth. One less than magnanimous gesture that seemed to have Emanuel's fingerprints all over it: former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean--who waged an epic battle with Emanuel over political strategy during the 2006 election cycle--was not invited to the public announcement in early January of his successor, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. "I thought it was appalling," a Dean ally says of the snub...