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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...you’ll be able to better focus on your work. After all, typing must be very hard when you’re all itchy and struggling to breathe in a cloud of your own B.O. Not so Productive – Taking a nap. I’m still talking to you, kid who lives in Lamont. If all you’re going to do is sleep, then you aren’t really accomplishing much at all, are you, Lamont kid? So go home and make the desk available for someone who’s actually...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore, | Title: Productive Procrastination | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...mum’s not a…”), their reward will be to crouch for a few hours with legroom barely sufficient for the small child sitting behind them, happily kicking the seat. It’s probably best to take a few sleeping pills and nap on a paper pillow...

Author: By Emily C. Ingram | Title: Plane Pain | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...first timeDonna Maria Coles Johnson spanked her daughter, they both cried. Johnson remembers that afternoon two years ago as if it were yesterday. They had just come home from church, and Vanessa, then 2, refused to take off her dress before nap time. "She gave me this look like she was the mother," Johnson, 43, recalls. "I'm fast-forwarding 16 years in my mind, hearing her say, 'Well, I'm taking the car anyway.'" Without a word, Johnson picked Vanessa up, took her into the bathroom and gave her six slaps on the thigh. After explaining the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Spanking O.K.? | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...keep them under control.“[In college], I had a bad message in my head that nothing ever works out,” he says. “I still have that message. Although now that I’m older, I go take a nap or tell myself to be quiet.”—Staff writer Lindsay A. Maizel can be reached at lmaizel@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Controversial Playwright Returns | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...frighteningly resembles Hugh Scully, an eccentric, bangled appraiser (Kimberly D. Hagan ’09), and a guileless bird connoisseur (Jon-Mark Overvold ’09) on a mission to get his nifty Parisian telescope appraised. In a brilliant moment, Overvold snaps out of a nap wondering, “Have I been abducted by carnies again?”In the best-delivered scene of the show, two elderly sisters (Zoe K. Kawaller ’09 and Anna C. Smith ’09) brought their “infectious attitudes” and a useless family...

Author: By Rosa E. Beltran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amateur Acting, Witty Script | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

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