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...four. Her mother Ellie passed on the domestic skills she'd learned as a child in the 1940s. "We had to find a way of doing things with next to nothing," she says. "Clean, do plumbing - you name it." Lush recalls how, "when I was really little, Mum showed me how you could use rotten (spoiled) milk to get ink out of clothes. I thought it was magic...
...putting together an “informal” committee to review the College’s relationship with student-run businesses and organizations, administrators confirmed this week. And although student business leaders said that the College currently has a minimal relationship with student businesses, administrators this week were mum as to what reforms the committee might recommend. “It has been roughly five years since the rules pertaining to student businesses were changed and the Student Business Advisory Committee was formed,” wrote Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd in an e-mail...
...didn’t hesitate to criticize the Republicans, but he didn’t hesitate to criticize the Democrats either.” Phukan said that while many in the audience were hoping for insider comments on potential candidates for 2008, Dean was mum on who might be his party’s nominee. Dean’s image in the media is misguided, some attendees said yesterday. “Howard Dean can be a provocateur,” Kolic wrote, “but what he fundamentally does by that is energize his supporters, not damage them...
...pushing this change in the History Department. (The brainchild of the effort remains unknown; The Crimson could only find critics of the proposed change to comment on-record—who all grimly predicted the policy change would pass—while the change’s boosters stayed mum...
...playing around, but this is an awful place," says Bronwen, 34, in on pickpocketing charges and playing Chicago's prosecutor and detective. "The show takes my mind out of the prison for a while. This is the best bit of prison for me. This and talking to my mum on the phone." Most of the women in Bronzefield are sent here on remand from local courts, waiting for sentencing on anything from fraud to murder. Few stay longer than a couple of months, when they're either released or moved on to more long-term accommodation. Which wreaks havoc with...