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...humor magazine at all, but rather a sophisticated trade journal dealing in high risk derivative strategies far above the grasp of the financial layman. Never fear though: the Lampoon may not technically be a bad humor magazine, but it’s still okay to use it as a makeshift sponge to sop up piss around your toilet...
Despite having makeshift power-play and penalty-kill units, Harvard was very efficient in both situations...
...eighth floor of the Holyoke Center, a makeshift, blue and white sign quietly announces the arrival of the “Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response...
...first light, Russian troops in combat gear move slowly along one of Grozny's ruined main streets, past makeshift crosses erected to their fallen comrades. Hugging the edge of the road to avoid snipers, they peer into the bushes, looking for radio-controlled mines and booby traps laid overnight by Chechen separatists. The soldiers--young conscripts fresh from the provinces and professionals here for the money--are tense, but they barely glance at most Chechens passing by. And the Chechens ignore them. The Russians don't find any mines this morning, and at a concrete-and-barbed-wire checkpoint, their...
...makeshift podium of two wooden crates, Nancy U. Murray ’67, who directs the ACLU’s Bill of Rights Education Project, said the Patriot Act enabled government agents to undertake extreme action without legitimate cause...