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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shots. My body feels swirly. 11:02 p.m.—The vodka is flowing, perhaps explaining our next opponents’ team name, “Team Hungry Hungry Habitat for Humanity”. I take the rebuttal—I sink it! BAM! I am the Mother Teresa of beer pong. 11:15 p.m.— Are the finals more relaxed since it’s for charity? “No. In fact, I feel more competitive,” says our opponent Paul T. Hedrick ’10, a Crimson sports editor and experienced...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Habitat for a hangover | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Beginning in his early days in boarding school, the young Roosevelt maintained a constant correspondence with his mother Sara Roosevelt. Sara—who according to Weishan predicted that Roosevelt was destined for greatness as a child—saved everything from his baby shoes to locks of his hair...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Original letters exchanged between mother and son have been used to determine the manufactures of many of the fixtures in Roosevelt’s suite, including Jordan Marsh for the rug and Paine for the curtains...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

Steele used the moment to introduce himself to the audience, describing his upbringing by a mother who picked cotton in the South, before moving to Washington, and refusing to take welfare because "she didn't want the government to raise her children." He recalled attending his first Lincoln Day dinner 23 years ago, in Maryland, and how, as a black man, "I didn't get the warmest reception." Friends, he said, had warned: "'They don't like black folks. Republicans, they're mean.' I thought about that, I said, that's not the party of Lincoln. So I decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Michael Steele Broaden the Grand Old Party? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Twilight’ book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML.”Unfortunately, few of the stories are so unambiguously amusing. A distressing number recount long periods of time in which the only person to contact the poster was his or her mother, clumsily discovered affairs, and the experience of getting laid off—often after having driven through a snowstorm to reach work on time. With consumer confidence plummeting after a month in which the U.S. lost nearly 600,000 jobs, this is a site for the recession.The site’s essence, then, lies...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The Awkward Stage | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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