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...Three-Inch Heels...
...time something acquires a nickname, it may be said to have entered the realm of the normal. "Blood pinning," however, is anything but. Ordinarily, when Marine paratroopers complete 10 training jumps, they receive their golden wings, a pin with two half-inch protruding points on the back. Sometimes, with that military love of macho ritual, the pin is even proudly thumped into a Marine's chest to draw a little celebratory blood. But according to two amateur videotapes obtained by Dateline NBC and aired as well on CNN late last week, that ritual sometimes descends into something much more barbaric...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both side of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...early in the second half, as both teams started going to their big men more often. But while Snowden hit his first four shots of the half, Dartmouth's Gilpin could never totally shake off Grancio and get into any type of groove, even though he had a four-inch height advantage...
...inch wreath worth $50, which was hanging in the doorway of the Starr Book Shop, 29 Plympton St., was also stolen...