Word: kegs
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...this new era, everybody must begin to account for his or her behavior. Wall Street executives cannot get fat on paper profits from powder-keg transactions. Government regulators cannot take long lunches to toast the invisible hand. Investors cannot expect new bubbles to bailout their busts. Congress cannot send home boondoggle pork projects while whining about government spending. And the President of the United States shall no longer have the liberty to dodge the big issues. He will have to lead by example and make the hard choices. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...there is one potential powder keg we haven't come to yet: children. Apter found that, in all the ethnic cultures included in her research and across the generations, child-rearing was one of the most constant and stressful sources of conflict between daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law. "If I don't see my grandkids as much as I want, if I don't think they're being cared for properly, if I don't think they're being raised in a way that is consistent with my beliefs of a good life," then trouble can ensue, says...
...organize a “giant walk-over” from the House’s morning festivities to the field as a means of further extending the revelry and ensuring that at least some students attend. The new rules indicate that while the tailgate will still be entirely keg-free, HoCos will be allowed to serve beer and wine to students who are over 21 years old, a change from the last Game at Harvard, when alcohol could only be purchased in designated spaces. Even this allowance of legal alcohol consumption, some HoCo chairs said, may not substantially affect...
...real life version of Dungeons and Dragons, or something equally cool). At this point, our aluminum-clad heroes rush down from above and land heavy blows on the role players—the dork playing the knight, for example, gets smashed with a hammer made from a five-liter keg can. But Red Fang hasn’t learned the very valuable lesson that the “Revenge of the Nerds” movies have taught us. And thus, their victory beer is cut short by the Dungeon and Dragons kids’ gory retaliation that recalls a certain...
...save it. But if you really must, Week 6 against Dartmouth looks promising.”I stand by that statement wholeheartedly. While Columbia has fought hard all season to at least look respectable in losing efforts, Dartmouth has apparently been replacing its unofficial mascot, Keggy the Keg, on the sideline with the real deal. The Big Green has to be playing drunk, right? A team can’t be this bad, can it?While I’m in a self-indulgent mood, let me bring up another quote of mine, this one from Week 2. Only this...