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...Mild uproar over tightened tailgate restrictions that prohibit any student from bringing alcohol onto Ohiri Field on Saturday has spurred students to seek other ways to make the historic weekend...
...bombs, whereby shots of the rice wine are precariously situated between chopsticks running parallel atop a glass of beer, necessitates the raucous slamming of fists. There’s just no way around it.In the course of our couple hours there, the grimaces on the sushi chefs go from mild bemusement to annoyance. I drunkenly wonder aloud of the possibilities of a culture of decorous restraint that might have attended a Japanese victory in World War II. We are finally asked to leave—the restaurant is closing—and I break off with soberer friends...
...shoulder while waving handsomely at me and greeting me with his huge yet absolutely uncontrived signature smile. Hui does not impress upon first sight, and it takes time for one to look beyond a plain appearance and truly appreciate the many thousand little wonderful things about his personality. His mild temper, sharp wit, indescribable humor, as well as an almost passionate earnestness, all gradually laid solid foundation to countless cherished friendships around campus. In the eyes of many, there hardly exists a better paradigm of kindness and candor than Hui, and often his presence suffices to deliver a magic bliss...
Sophomore cornerback Andrew Berry sat out the game due to a mild ankle sprain suffered in last week’s 35-33 win at Lehigh. Though Murphy expected a number of players to take over Berry’s spot opposite junior Steve Williams in the defensive backfield, freshman Derrick Barker started in his place...
...then there's the strange case of Donald Rumsfeld. Here was a flaming exception to the Bush family code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld...