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...every d-bag and their mother comes back to school with a sick tan from the Caribbean or chafed legs from a trek on Brokeback Mountain, one thing is abundantly clear: second semester will probably be terrible. Back in September, in our very first Bell Lap column, we offered some guidelines for making sure your Back to School stock was high. Unfortunately, it seems the last days of summer spent masturbating to Laguna Beach reruns caused us to forget certain fundamental truths about Harvard. Although Catizone kept it fresh in his jean jacket and Schonberger happily resorted...
...Harvard Dining Services worker’s niece showed that “no mountain” was too high for her as she passed the first round of the American Idol competition last night with the song “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” Ayla Brown, who is the daughter of state senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, and WCVB-TV newswoman Gail Huff, was told on the show televised yesterday, that she would now be “going to Hollywood.” Multiple fan sites featuring Brown?...
...would be willing to pay to give their kids the same sort of experience. DuFine, a former Polygram executive who started her career at MTV, and her business partner, David Codikow, manage the rock band Velvet Revolver and helped put together the first two Down from the Mountain bluegrass and country-music tours. But it was DuFine's toddler daughter who planted the seed of Jamarama, innocently asking why she couldn't see all her favorite bands at the same time. "I instantly picked up the phone and called David," says DuFine. Weeks later, they inked a deal with Creative...
...then, there was something more to remember. "I don't want us to forget that there's a woman in there," said President Clinton, standing in front of her casket beneath a mountain of flowers. Not just a symbol and a role model, he said, though she surely was that, but a woman who "lived and breathed and got angry and got hurt and had dreams and disappointments." And so it's worth remembering that of all the moments when she stood at history's hinge, one of the most important was when she was most human, most vulnerable...
...American Richard Bangs, an international river explorer and award-winning author of Riding the Dragon's Back, about his first descent on China's Yangtze River, has led first river-boarding descents on 35 rivers worldwide. Bangs says that the rivers that cascade down such mountain ranges as the upward-thrusting Himalayas and Andes run rapidly continuously, leaving no room for human error. But the Zambezi gives boarders a chance to rest, "in that it has a beautifully designed sequence: a big rapid is almost always followed by a calm pool...