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...Lamont Library will become your home away from home and one of your main centers of social activity. Lamont is almost always littered with freshmen, so be prepared to run into dozens of people you know as you walk through Lamont Café in sweatpants. Try not to sleep there (at least too often...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Calendar of Your Year Ahead | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...board the Red Line at the Harvard Square T stop. (Use the main entrance at the “pit” rather than the entrances by the Body Shop or Eastern Mountain Sports, especially late at night.) The “outbound” ramp on the right will take you to Porter Square and its 24-hour Shaw’s supermarket, and a little bit further you’ll find Davis Square with its cafes and vintage shops. The “inbound” direction will take you into the depths of downtown Boston...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Getting Around Boston | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...wasn’t until the motion-activated lights in the stacks went off, leaving me reading about devil worship in a subterranean blackout that I panicked. Grabbing my belongings, I booked it up the stairs, too terrified to wait for the elevator. As I burst back onto the main floor, panting and sweating, I thanked God I was alive and not being forced to drink blood of small woodland creatures. I then spent the remainder of my afternoon reading this book cover-to-cover in the safe and well-lit periodicals room...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stacked | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...were motivated not by profits but by a sense of patriotism. "I've put stars on the Wall [of Honor] for contractors," he said, referring to the CIA tradition of honoring those who were killed in the line of duty by placing a star on a wall in the main foyer of the Agency's headquarters in Langley. There have been 13 new stars since 9/11, but it's not clear how many of those honor contractors. The CIA doesn't always release the names and other details about honorees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officials Defend CIA's Use of Contractors | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...value of the vote "given the potential for fraud has kept a number of voters from the polls." A low turnout will do "little to enhance the sense that all Afghans are included in the democratic process," Rondeaux says. "It also raises the possible threat that the incumbent's main rivals will question the results and perhaps encourage a violent response, leaving open a window for the Taliban to fully disrupt Afghanistan's progress." (Watch a video on the Afghanistan election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Vote: Threats and Empty Polling Stations | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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