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TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich asked two Muscovites from opposite ends of the social scale and with very different fortunes as a result of the Yeltsin era to give their own politial epitaphs on Russia's first post-Soviet President. The prosperous business executive and the lowly janitor had remarkably similar conclusions about Boris Yeltsin and his legacy...
...here we are, with Nine Inch Nails’ 24th “halo” (or, in non-NIN speak, their fifth full-length release). Mastermind Trent Reznor has come a long way from his humble beginnings as a studio janitor. Thousands of rabid fans worldwide have been counting the days until “Year Zero’s” release, but a cautionary note to those same listeners: this is not the norm for Reznor and co.—and the change might be hard to swallow. As a concept album dealing with religion, mind...
Gene Cole, a janitor, heard shots, went around a corner on the second floor and saw a body. Then he saw Cho loading his gun. Cole turned and fled down the stairs. The doors to Norris were chained shut from the inside, the better to slow down police; one report said there were also notes on the doors saying they had been booby-trapped. Outside Norris and elsewhere around campus, police yelled at students to stay inside, grabbed and hauled them indoors. About 9:55 a.m., a second campuswide e-mail went out. It said, "A gunman is loose...
...Surreptitiously sneak under the table and blow the shirt distributors. 5) Go into I-Banking. This delightfully vague Harvard classic seems to be a solution for everything. The more successful you are, the more bribes (read: t-shirts) you’ll receive. 6) Disguise yourself as a janitor and snag some tees during the post-game cleanup. 7) Unleash your inner klepto and steal each house’s mascot costume. The bathroom in the Berg is located in the basement. Some quick costume changes, and sneaky table rotations should do the trick. 8) Steal a box of your...
...sense of fair play while growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, with parents he has described as "hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...