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...jig is officially up, Brown. I hope you enjoyed your brief run as Ivy League football’s version of the Tampa Bay Rays, the gritty underdog threatening to take down the two well-endowed powerhouses at the top of its division. The Bears’ 78 points allowed in their last two games do not exactly scream out “sleeper pick...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Harvard Looks to Stay on Track | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Last Sunday as the city of Boston celebrated the recent World Series win for the Red Sox I was getting ready to poke fun at the drunken locals on the evening news shouting in that famed Boston (Bas-tahn) tone. As one guy attempted the Pabelbom jig while shouting incomprehensibly, I came perilously close to calling my roommate into the common room to mock this inebriated, unintelligible soul who apparently missed the “Sesame Street” episode brought to us by the letter...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Don’t Mess with Texas | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...tried to distract myself with anything and everything around me—the “Re-sign Lowell” chants, Jonathan Papelbon’s jig, a sharply-dressed Manny Ramirez, the Dropkick Murphys, Jonathan Papelbon’s jig, Daisuke Matsuzaka’s translator Masa Hoshino ‘02, the list goes...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DIX' SPORTING GOODS: ¡Yo Quiero My Free Taco! | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...HSUCS. Say that acronym out loud once or twice and you’ll get the joke.“The dean’s office didn’t realize that our acronym was Harvard SUCS,” Greenbaum explains. But soon, it seemed that the proverbial jig was up. “They called us in to tell us we needed to change the name, so we thought they would be pissed.”As it turned out, the dean’s objection was actually just that “Harvard” could refer...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Hecklers Here: Stand-Up Society Takes the Stage | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...falling for radio. To unceremoniously hammer the point home, MTV chose to show The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” as its first music video. Clad in black pleather suits, the band members were only too happy to dance a funeral jig on the grave of radio. “Who wants to be a DJ when you can be a VJ?” insinuated the men in space suits driving MTV flags into the moon.In retrospect, The Buggles were a little too quick to blow up that poor girl?...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson and Evan L Hanlon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: RADIO FREE HARVARD: Don't Tune Out Just Yet: Radio Is Rising | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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