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...said.Across the street, Upstairs on the Square has been no different.“People are definitely still drinking lots of wine, and lots of cocktails,” Lishanky said. “Alcohol sales have probably been on the rise, if there’s anything to numb the pain.”In addition, every restaurant interviewed reported a strong Valentine’s Day weekend, as diners spent with abandon and tipped generously.“What we’ve seen as a trend overall in restaurants is that people are still doing the special...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Restaurants Deal With Economic Trouble | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...what did you do? I think anybody who has been through a shock like that, you know how you feel. Your body is just really numb. My sister kind of came in and took over. By now, the word was trickling out, and it was just chaos in the church. I have to tell you, it looked a lot like Sex and the City, when Big wouldn't marry Carrie. My people were rallying for me, and my sister said things in the church she shouldn't have said. I'm sure bad words. She was yelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happens When You Get Left at the Altar | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...American Civil War,” but, according to welcoming remarks, was indisposed. A substitute read Faust’s writings on the reality of war and the effect it has on American soldiers, transforming them into “different men... men required to deny, to numb basic human feelings at costs they may have paid for decades after the war ended.” As Yo-Yo Ma and Charlie Albright ’11 on the piano played an excerpt from “Quartet for the End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen, who composed...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Witness'ing the Interplay Between Arts and Rights | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...primary care, CareLink assigned Pat to Dr. Carolyn Eaton, an engaging woman who has been working with the system for about a year. What alarms her most about the new patients she has seen lately, Eaton says, is how long people wait - diabetics whose feet are numb, cancer patients already in the advanced stages of the disease - before they seek treatment. "When people fall on hard times, they're kind of embarrassed," Eaton says. "Their health care ends up becoming much more expensive." (Facebook users, comment on the story below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...comeliest woman there.” I heard the horses neigh their assent as Ezekiel pulled up with the buggy.“Need I you remind you, sir, that someone in my position has no real duty.” His ruby face went numb pearl.“Being a dead soldier’s fiancé is no different than being a dead soldier’s wife.”“It’s different to me.”“Well not to me! You’ve been holed...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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