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...announced to the room that he regularly wears women’s jeans. This Halloween, I spent two successfully inebriated hours trying to take a friend’s shirt off—not because I wanted to seduce him, but because I just really disliked the way it fit. Perhaps most disastrously, I once made out with the quasi-love interest of my best friend, leading to my removal from her gchat, her phone, and her heart for several lonely weeks...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21! Here Nan Comes! | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...even the $15 billion installment isn't being handed over without some strings attached. In order to receive the funds, the Big Three will have to work with a so-called car czar, as well as a board made up of as many experts as the President deems fit (President Bush will handle the initial appointments, and there is some hope that Obama and Bush can agree on a car czar). By March 31 of next year, Detroit will have to lay out a schedule for how and when they will repay the funds as well as plans for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Congress Pass an Auto Bailout Bill Nobody Likes? | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...video created during last year's writers' strike, Brecher urged union members, who were fighting producers for royalty rights to material streamed online, not to "let them take away the Internet." While angered by the situation, Brecher managed to fit in one last joke. Text on a black screen read: "Irving Brecher, WGA. Looking for representation. Because his agent died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irving Brecher | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod ’10 hardly fit the mold of typical campus politicians...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Jillian K. Kushner, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Insider Wants Inclusive UC | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

Beedle is, as advertised in Deathly Hallows, a small book - 111 pages, and that's with an introduction, an afterword, triple spacing and margins into which you could fit a Hungarian Horntail. None of the stories in it are bad - I don't think J.K. Rowling knows how to be less than charming in print - but they do vary in quality. The first tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.K. Rowling's Beedlemania | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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