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...gives me freckles or second-degree burns—sometimes even in the dead of winter during a 15 minute snowbound trek to Widener. But I took cues from locals on how to enjoy the sun without a case of heat stroke, and found myself waxing philosophical in the Mediterannean instead of at the museum.Granted, by the end of summer my brother was ten shades darker than me just from staying inside and playing X-Box. I probably won’t end up taking Greek this semester. I will start chugging Starbucks while writing my first response paper.Even though...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just Chilling. | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...tracks such as the brief yet haunting “Vikings Invade the Mediterannean But Don’t Leave,” Herren manages to coax heartbreaking beauty out of sterile piano samples, precise drums and various cut-up noises...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prefuse 73 Pushes Hip-Hop Bounds | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...about 100 American military men had come to Spain he thought they had come to sign a defense treaty. The information gathered by this Pentagon milk-run was never made public, and while a lot of high officials probably got an all-expenses-paid six-week vacation on the Mediterannean, a good number must have been seriously interested in Spain's military importance. At the time, Spain was the only European country in which the allies could set up bases impervious to Soviet air attack and could launch a counter-attack to a "red advance" on the continent...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: The Future of Spain | 11/18/1975 | See Source »

...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Reunion | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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