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House: Matthews Concentration: History and History of Art and Architecture Hometown: Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Ideal Date: Lamont sleepover with Sam Teller. Best way for a guy to get your attention: A megaphone—I’m deaf in my right ear. Seriously, it’s true. Where to find you on a Saturday night: With a chocolate milkshake. First thing you notice about a guy: Swagger. Freshman boys or senior men?: Senior boys. Your best pick-up line: Excuse me, does this smell like chloroform to you? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told...
...Senate, Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has warmed only slightly to the agreement. Immediately after Bush signed it, Lugar was noncommittal. On Monday, he budged a little, telling his hometown newspaper, the Indianapolis Star, in an interview that he was "likely to favor" the accord if it was "in the best interest of our country" and if there were safeguards in place to make sure India didn't use U.S. nuclear help to build up the small arsenal of nuclear weapons it already...
...honors that have been heaped upon him.Since carrying the United States flag in the closing ceremony of the Games, Cheek has been given the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Spirit Award, appeared on the Wheaties box, and met with President Bush and House Democratic whip Nancy Pelosi.And his hometown of Greensboro, N.C., couldn’t be prouder of Cheek, declaring March 23 “Joey Cheek Day” while Greensboro College introduced the “Joey Cheek Scholarship,” a four-year honor to be awarded to a student from the Darfur region.Joey...
...living in exile in Russia, did not attend his funeral. And the remnants of his once all-powerful party put him in the ground in the dark, not in some grand presidential tomb but in a plain grave beneath a 100-year-old linden tree in his sooty Serbian hometown of Pozarevac. A brass band, made up of retired members of the Serb military, played a mournful march, as a handful of the faithful tried to recapture his former glory in speeches blending his trademark nationalist rhetoric with rants against Serbia's manifold alleged enemies. Though an estimated...
...Roxanne Potvin is only 23, but she has already made a name for herself as a blues singer and was able to attract Nashville-based singer-songwriter Colin Linden to produce her second album, The Way It Feels. (Her first was self-produced, self-financed and released from her hometown in Gatineau, Quebec.) Linden plays guitar on most of the songs, and there are many other guest appearances, including Bruce Cockburn, John Hiatt and Daniel Lanois. What drew such a constellation of stars to such a young singer? While Linden's influence certainly helped, Potvin's range of talents...