Word: habib
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Lampoon clean-up hitter Matt Ebbel hit a solid groundout to third, though, and Crimson turncoat Danny Habib, playing for the Lampoon, did manage to connect for a towering foul-out to the catcher in the sixth inning...
...DIED. HABIB BOURGUIBA, 96, Tunisia's liberator from French colonial rule in 1956, and the nation's pro-Western President for Life until a 1987 bloodless coup; in Monastir, Tunisia. He modernized his country and promoted women's rights and moderation toward Israel...
...Like veterans of a long war, we accumulated stories. My grandmother once collected several hundred dollars when she was misheard at the ticket window and given a trifecta she hadn't asked for, but which hit anyway. The entire Habib family got rich when an exacta combining Sweet Charlie (my father's nickname) and Texas Gentleman (my uncle then lived in Houston) defied long odds. I once made the mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention...
...Daniel G. Habib '00 has never been richer. He drinks unfiltered water, writes unfiltered prose and smokes, unfiltered, like a ham. Despite the attention brought by his muttonchops, however, his origins and his intentions remain--even to his closest compatriots--utterly unknown...