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It’s a little past eight in the morning, and Katharine T. Waterman ’09 is doing the high knee crawl across the floor of the gym, a fake M-16 cradled in her arms. It’s a drill she does over and over. Wait for the signal, race forward, drop to the ground. She drags herself ahead with her elbows, knees scraping against the floor. The hard rubber M-16 is heavier than it looks. Waterman woke up two hours ago to catch the 6:20 a.m. shuttle to MIT. She didn?...
...took the fire extinguisher and set it out.” About 40 students stood outside throughout the ordeal, as Old Quincy was evacuated while the nearly 20 firefighters who responded made sure the building was safe. Victoria E. Clark ’08, who lives on the fourth floor of Quincy’s C entryway, was in the shower when the fire alarm went off. “The fire wasn’t too big, but you could smell the smoke on the fourth floor,” she said as she stood outside with a bathrobe...
...Ball put up a seductive poster of Jessica Simpson, Almusai a portrait of King Abdullah--but "probably my accent." Kenny Ison, 20, a culinary-arts major from Point Pleasant, W.Va., happily recalls how his roommate, Hatim al-Garzaie, 21, invited him to sit on a rug spread on the floor and dine with a bunch of Saudi students by digging into communal pans of rice and meat. Other nights there have been jam sessions; al-Garzaie turns off his PlayStation, plugs his oud into the amp and leads his fellow Saudis in songs from home. "Already," says Ison...
Lucas and other directors don't subscribe to the cheap-date theory of movie attendance--that kids go to get out of the house, to be with their peers and away from their parents. Directors also ignore the complaints about moviegoing--the glop on the floor, the indifferent projection, the half an hour of ads and in the row behind you a nattering couple rehearsing their Jerry Springer act. No, to directors, moviegoing is an almost religious act: a Mass experience. You walk into a cathedral, feel your spirit soar with hundreds of other communicants and watch the transubstantiation...
...lobbying reform is fixing the budget process so Congress isn't doling out money for individual projects in congressional districts, that's highly unlikely to happen. Tom Coburn, a freshman Senator from Okalahoma, has already become one of his chamber's more unpopular members by repeatedly going to the floor of the Senate and deriding his colleagues for all the money they bring back home to their districts and states...