Word: hometowner
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House: Currier Concentration: Hist and Lit/Sexual Gender Studies Hometown: Phoenix, Ariz. Ideal Date: 8/17/09 (my 21st birthday), but until then... dinner and a Coca-Cola Classic. What do you look for in a girl/guy: A tall, handsome, 47-year-old Leo with salt-n-pepper hair and an undying love for the Constitution. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Table dancing with my blackberry and bean boots at the Fly Club for ze sexiest gentlemen. Then, snuggling with my Cheetos, Smart Water, Oreos and Felipe’s. Your best pick up line: No strings attached. Best...
...they are eager to begin their two-year tenures with the program.Elizabeth A. Texeira ’09, who will be teaching in New Orleans, said she “literally [had] not stopped celebrating” since being accepted, despite encountering some resistance from family and hometown acquaintances.“People said to me, ‘Why are you wasting a Harvard Degree?’” she said. “It’s not wasting a degree. It’s connecting to me a network of alums. It?...
Meanwhile, Rangel, 78 - one of the most recognizable and beloved figures on Capitol Hill - has gone to war with his hometown paper, particularly after its editorial page urged him to step aside as chairman while the ethical questions are being investigated. "His temporary yielding of the gavel is an urgent necessity for a Democratic Congress elected two years ago on promises of an ethical housecleaning," the New York Times editorialized in September. Earlier this week, after the paper published even more serious allegations, Rangel wrote a scathing letter to the editor denying that he had done anything improper with regard...
...declared that all taxable means of earning money in Somalia violate Islamic law by propping up a government it has declared un-Islamic, piracy had been exempted because it isn't taxed. A pirate named Abdenasser told TIME he had once done good business recruiting young men from his hometown of Bossaso for the industry, with one of his best pitch lines being that it didn't violate Islamic law. But these days, he said, the Islamists have taken such a big piece of the pie that the pirates and their recruiters no longer see much of the money...
...many people out to see Obama was his ability to relate. For me, it was his nonchalant pound he gave my brother (I give fist-pounds to my brother!), and his difficulty balancing loyalty to the church while distancing himself from a controversial minister (the old minister of my hometown church was controversial...