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...Night Three: The crowd swells to 1,000. Lever spots the croc and heaves his personally designed, nonlethal bamboo harpoon. He misses. He then shines his flashlight over the water and thinks he catches the red reflection of the croc's eyes. He's mistaken: they are bobbing Coke cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhappy Hunting | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Four: Lever again readies his harpoon but realizes he has the wrong target: "It was the biggest rat I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhappy Hunting | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Much as Columbus asked Ferdinand and Isabella to finance his voyage to India, ask your roommates to finance your voyage to a case of Harpoon India Pale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Ways to Celebrate Columbus Day | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...beer and wine selections. Complementing the concise food selections, the libations are a well-chosen assortment, though the bang for your buck found on the other side of the menu seems to trail away here. The beers are a very nice mix of domestic standards (Bud, MGD), local classics (Harpoon, Tremont, Magic Hat), familiar imports (Peroni, Amstel) and some exotic foreigners (Beamish, Tucher). Likewise, the wine list has eight quality whites and nine highly drinkable reds, such as the very solid 1999 Ravenswood Zinfandel...

Author: By Clay B. Tousey iii, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

Floor by floor, the Forum is as eventful as a totem pole. To satisfy zoning regulations that require upper stories to be set back to admit sunlight to the street, most architects provide a stair-step silhouette. Abraham produced a diagonal slope with angular overhangs, like teeth on a harpoon. His upper stories simultaneously thrust upward and avalanche down. Below that, the director's office is housed in a glass box that juts from the zinc facade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Small Package, Big Ideas | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

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