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...Convention Center on the first day of the largest Star Wars party in history, Celebration IV. The event, only the fourth official Star Wars fan gathering ever, marks 30 years since a fictional galaxy far, far away burst into our cultural consciousness and gave grown men an excuse to hang onto their toy collections. By Memorial Day, organizers expect more than 25,000 would-be Wookiees and stormtroopers to have joined the party...
Only its implementation has been seriously flawed. The Queen’s Head, which calls itself a “public house,” instead of providing a common space for students to relax and hang out, study or socialize, is a strict booze-up venue. Its limited opening hours—only Friday and Saturday evenings this semester (and Wednesday through Sunday evenings next fall)—mean that the “Pub” inevitably only ever attracts the rowdy late-night drinking crowd, as opposed to the stressed student, (probably under the drinking...
...reopen the prison last August for all Iraqis being detained and renamed it the Baghdad Correctional Facility. But reminders of the prison's grim history were inescapable. From the ceiling of each 10-ft.-by-12-ft. cell still dangled a large hook, which had been used to hang inmates from their hands or feet. Waleed Sabih al-Delami, detained after soldiers found suspicious wires near his house, tells TIME the Americans picked up where Saddam left off. He says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib...
...game called “whirlyball” in which two teams of players ride in bumper cars and throw a wiffleball into a goal using a plastic scoop. “We played about five rounds today. We thought we were just going to come here [afterward] and hang out and eat dinner,” Konopka said. “We didn’t know about any of this ‘Double Dare’ stuff.” However, band members said they enjoyed the battle. Konopka told a fan after the show...
When I found out that my husband and I had been invited to a gender-segregated wedding reception in Tehran, it was too late to concoct an excuse. So for the first time in my life, I put on a chiffon gown to go hang out with 400 other women. I waved goodbye to my husband as he headed for the men's ballroom, and we agreed that if the evening grew intolerable, we would send text messages to plan our escape...