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...scene Huck believes that a traveling troupe of invisible Arabs with two hundred elephants was conjured by a genie. It is only after the incident that Huck reconsiders his gullibility. He “thought all this over for two or three days” and rubs an old lamp hoping to find a genie before eventually concluding “all that stuff was only just one of Tom sawyer’s lies... It had all the marks of Sunday School...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Second Look at Comedy in Twain | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Beijing residents awakened Monday to skies the eerie yellow color of a street lamp. It was the second time in three days that the Chinese capital had been scoured by sandstorms that have hit 16 provinces across west, central and north China, affecting nearly one-fifth of the country's 1.3 billion people, according to the state-run Xinhua News Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing: Onslaught of The Mongolian Cyclone | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...Leslie hid in the bedroom all night until the next morning when she discovered the source in her basement. "Every flashlight that [the men had] taken across the street - and only those flashlights - had exploded into a million pieces," says Leslie. The exploding bulbs included that in a dive lamp able to go down to 300 feet; a C battery was also bent in half. "The ones that had not been taken across the street were just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing a Historic but Haunted Winery Back to Life | 3/20/2010 | See Source »

Harvard had its chances in the third, putting seven shots on net, but with the clock winding down and overtime looming, Clarkson found a way to light the lamp...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Late-Game Goal Stops Harvard’s ECAC Tourney Run | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

Ryabkina pushed the lead to 3-0 less than a minute later. Weber reached out to try to smother a shot from freshman Jillian Dempsey, but couldn’t get a glove on it. Ryabkina chipped the shot over the flattened Weber to light the lamp again...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone Breaks All-Time Wins Mark as Women's Hockey Tops Princeton | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

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