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...same coin,” Strack explains. The upstairs space, which features plush couches and chairs as well as artfully strewn pillows and rugs, has a decidedly Moroccan feel. The room is meant to provide an intimate, but lively, atmosphere. “At the beginning we had it lit only by candlelight,” says Strack, “but the Fire Department was not as impressed as I was.” Still, the mood is cozy. “Up here is much different from downstairs,” Strack says. “Most nights...
...Hist and Lit student Thomas P. Chang ’03 got his thesis back this Monday. It became immediately clear that one of his graders had been drunk, possibly at a Chi-Chi’s, while writing comments. On margarita-stained pages, tutor Larry W. Peters described Chang’s paper as “illuminating, fascinating, and highly erotic” before awarding it a grade of “Magna con Queso?...
...frame, the smiling face of a young St. Josemaría Escriva, whom Elmbrook residents call simply “the Founder” or just “Father,” peers out, watching over the room. Further back in the house is a Spartan chapel, dully lit, with only a low glow of sunlight creeping in softly through stained glass windows...
...Before reaching the first bridge, the convoy was taking small arms fire from across the river when a "technical" vehicle, a civilian truck with a machine gun mounted on the back came careening toward them. They "lit it up" and secured the bridge...
...noticed the smoke seeping from the windows of the rental truck as Timothy McVeigh pulled up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that gray morning. McVeigh had lit two fuses to the 7,000-lb. fertilizer bomb in the truck and then parked beside the building's day-care center. The explosion vaporized the front of the building, leaving a yawning cross-section of oozing cable and smoke. The dead would number 168, including 19 children. (At least six people who survived or lost loved ones have since killed themselves.) When McVeigh was executed in 2001, he remained convinced...