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...March 2002, Ney had agreed to insert language in an election bill that was being negotiated that would have lifted a gambling ban on an Indian tribal client, the Tiguas of Texas, according to the Volz plea deal. That effort failed when Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut did not back it in the Senate, leaving Abramoff vulnerable to the Tiguas' wrath. Three days after they returned from the Scottish golfing trip, according to Volz's plea agreement, Volz "told Ney what Abramoff wanted him to say" in a meeting with the Tiguas. The Tiguas' lawyer, Mark Schwartz told the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golf Junket that Haunts Abramoff and Friends | 5/11/2006 | See Source »

...time it takes a crew of five roadies to position the amps at a normal rock concert. To get a glimpse of music culture at Harvard, and perhaps even some literal battling, the student bands are a great bet, and the whole weekend promises to be full of pop-[insert term] fun of all sorts. —Staff writer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Rockers Unleash Onslaught | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...bored. She lazily skimmed her new paperback copy of Reviving Ophelia—she must have read the old one down to shreds. She just stood there, popping another piece of Doublemint, or reapplying her lip gloss, or slapping her ever-present pack of Virginia Slims against her palm. (Insert oral fixation jokes, here, here and here.) Her hair—usually dishwater brown and wavy—had been straightened and bleached the color of sweet corn since the last time I saw her...Just when I thought she had maxed out on hooter hugeness, it seemed that whatever...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Examples of Similar Passages Between Viswanathan's Book and McCafferty's Two Novels | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...mails with students have been very constructive,” he said. But Karim noted that at the University of Oregon, she began seeing messages with “Hey you” and “Yo” as the salutation, leading her to insert the gentle reminder in her syllabi. While she encourages students to meet with her and to ask “relevant questions” over e-mail, Karim expressed some concerns about the impact of e-mail on the professor-student relationship. In this modern age of the internet, “professors...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Netiquette 'Just About Right' | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...your pictures out of your camera? Many drugstores have automated kiosks. Just insert the memory card and follow the instructions. In some cases, you can leave your memory card behind, and the store staff will print the pictures. And many of the labs where you used to mail your rolls of film now work with memory cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easy Shot | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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