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...defended his right to display a homemade rosewood plaque in his courtroom. That crusade helped him get elected as Alabama's chief justice in 2000, so it should have surprised no one when he wheeled the 5,280-lb. monument of the Commandments into the courthouse rotunda in a midnight ceremony and then forced a showdown by refusing to remove...
...really ride them, walk all over town because we didn’t have cars or anything better to do. One of my friends recently described those nights as times “when we’d go and walk down four-lane roads at midnight because we thought we’d all get killed and it would be fun or something.” There was a sense that we couldn’t really go anywhere, or that even if we did we’d just end up back in someone’s basement...
...It’s midnight on Halloween and hundred upon hundreds of drunken Yalies are chanting “Harvard Sucks, Harvard Sucks.” The crowd is shaking off its drunkenness from the long night of Liquor Treating and settling down for the campus-wide Halloween tradition of...listening to classical music? Yes, almost all of the freshman class and many upperclassmen have collected in a drunken haze, sporting everything from hooker getups to astronaut costumes to a nostalgic nod to the sartorial splendor of Sporty Spice. Perhaps predictably, the crowd includes way too many guys in drag...
Cambridge Fire Chief Gerald Reardon said that the fire likely began after midnight in the first or second floor of 1110 Mass. Ave., near Arrow Street...
...course, most colleges have their own obscure traditions—statues to rub, say, or arches under which to kiss at midnight, or implausible urban legends involving libraries sinking under the weight of their books. At Harvard, though, tradition is as insistent a presence as the cigarette burns on my coat. Upon our arrival in September our first year, we are greeted by a list the Freshman Dean’s Office has left of all the people who have lived in our room. (Actually, this was the source of my earliest disappointment at Harvard: reading my list I thought...