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After lunch, Caleb and I headed towards the nearest McCain-Palin phonebank. It was the Saturday before the election, and Caleb wanted to spend the afternoon volunteering. As we walked, Caleb told me about his summer abroad. It was his first time out of the country, and he sounded slightly apologetic for liking Europe so much. In Paris, he celebrated his job with Rove by trying escargot. It was different, he told me. “I’m a Texan, you know, I like to eat cow.” Caleb seems so smart and so careful about...
...message of the video is as follows. Drink. Drink lots of beer. Drink awful, cheap beer (e.g., Pabst Blue Ribbon, Tecate, Kokanee). Drink it with your scruffy friends. Drink it until you vomit. Rock out while you do so. When you’ve had enough beer, hit the nearest metal shop. Now take all your empty cans and weld them together into weapons and suits of armor. How much cooler is that idea than recycling, or even—dare I say it—commingled recycling? This seems to be the gist of “Prehistoric...
...friend from college decided to celebrate their graduation by backpacking through Europe she thought she'd come home with a commemorative T-shirt and maybe a shot glass. But once they hit the dark and narrow streets of Venice, the two tossed the guise of just-friends into the nearest canal and became a couple...
...want the book to be called ‘How Fiction Works,’” Wood, who is also a literary critic for The New Yorker, joked. In fact, Wood’s intended title for the book—“The Nearest Thing To Life”—would have been in keeping with his lecture’s primary topic, the creation of vivid and effective characters in writing. Arguing against E.M. Forster’s distinction between flat and rounded characters, Wood said that both readers and writers should...
...regatta’s final race.The B-division tandem of freshman skipper Annie DeAngelo and crew Charles was 15th. Their best finish was also second place, but three disqualifications proved to be too much to come back from.Boston College dominated the event, finishing nearly 50 points ahead of its nearest competitor. The women will also look to claim an ACC berth this coming weekend at the Victorian Coffee Urn, which will also be the final home regatta of Watson’s impressive career. “Four women’s teams have already qualified, so we just need...