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...close-knit group has even adopted nicknames for each other. Peirce Assistant Professor of Mathematics Albert Chau is known as “The Professor” for his tendency to over-analyze shots, while James C. Lee ’05 goes by the moniker “The Kid.” Due to the painstaking attention he pays to the details of the game, Jonathan P. Lee ’08 has become known as “The Perfectionist...

Author: By Katherine G. Chan and Katherine M. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Pool Guru Takes Over Loker | 2/9/2005 | See Source »

...longer running for anything other than history's judgment, George W. Bush delivered his second Inaugural Address under a cold sky to a sea of hats--fur and knit and 10 gallon. Laura looked like a bride in white. The only warmth came from the words, a 21-min. oration crackling with imagery burning almost out of control: the "day of fire" that changed everything three years ago, the "untamed fire of freedom" that "will reach the darkest corners of our world." The message embedded inside the address was, in the words of a White House adviser, "Don't back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebration and Dissent | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

Consumer advocates preach caveat emptor, but the Vinsons have decided to just say no. Last Christmas, Norman bought Arlene a St. John knit suit--and charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing-Card Trick | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...expected to move to Minnesota and 3,500 to Wisconsin, where they will be eligible for welfare at a time when the job market and state budgets are tight. For the families of the victims, the economy is the least of their woes. The entire close-knit community is reeling from the loss, and hundreds are turning out for the funerals of their neighbors and fellow hunters. Many of the mourners are wearing blaze orange ribbons. --With reporting by Phil Bourjaily/Iowa City and Marc Hequet/Rice Lake

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre in the Woods | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Amazingly enough, Thompson still has time to simply hang out with friends—and not just to teach them how to knit. Her friend Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 says that Thompson “has this lovely subtlety to her.” Between the knitting, theater, book reviewing, mapmaking, and volcanic studies, Thompson is busy, to say the least. “I’m doing so many things that I want to do,” Thompson says, “[but] there’s always something I wish I were...

Author: By Gabriel Rocha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Volcano Lover | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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