Word: ledgerã
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...which alludes to the tribe’s idea that thunderstorms originate in the west; to the cultural belief that thunderstorms fuel warfare; and to bloody Western expansion. The center of gravity for the exhibit is a ledger inscribed with the work of several Lakota artists. The ledger??€”which has been in the possession of Harvard’s Houghton Library since the 1930s and was only discovered to be of artistic value five years ago—contains seventy-seven color drawings of Lakota war exploits, several of which are displayed alongside ancient artifacts and contemporary...
...nameless fellow diner gave her soiled companion a disinterested stank-eye, my roommate was in quite a different place, busily cackling—as I struggled to stuff myself further, I might add—that with all that damn sauce on my face, I looked more like Heath Ledger??€™s Joker than I typically do on weekend nights...
...friends wondered the other night, as we passed around the issue of Entertainment Weekly whose glossy cover featured Ledger??€™s face, that he is sure to be remembered decades from now while he might have slipped into obscurity had he lived a full life...
...Ledger??€™s death unexpectedly helps explain a seemingly unrelated phenomenon: the meteoric rise of Barack Obama’s popularity amongst my generation. Why is it that droves of young voters (and kids too young to vote) flock to Obama...
...faltered on the bell lap of what was to be a record-setting season. Able to muster only 50 yards on 20 tries against the Harvard front, he fell shy of Ed Marinaro’s single-season Ivy League marks for rushing yards and touchdowns. His final ledger??€”1,619 yards, 23 scores—still puts him in rarefied air in Ancient Eight history and within striking distance of some of the more illustrious all-time records held by Clifton Dawson ’07 come 2008. Did I mention that he played the final four...