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...consecutive days, thousands of tourists and retirees are up in arms after discovering that while they understood themselves to be in Florida, they were actually 3,000 miles north, in Greenland. Governor Jeb Bush's sheepish response--that Florida is just about full up, and that the rerouted human overflow will find the icebound island to be a spectacular vacation and sportsman's paradise if people remember to dress properly--has so far failed to mollify the complainants. A group of elderly condominium buyers are filing a class action after the condos in their gated community of Icicle Mews blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Label Us Skeptical | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...work, doesn’t a goodly portion come from being able to gab about it with your closest friends? It’s true, during reading period, Cabot Library becomes a veritable motel, but nothing captures our passion for academics like the lunchtime debates and shouting matches that overflow from, say, “Justice” lecture into Annenberg Hall. Traditionally, academics use thousands of stuffy, jargon-filled journals to communicate their most obscure thoughts and discoveries, but the joy of college is the ability to air them over a good piece of chicken parm, free from abstruse...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel, | Title: Acids, Bases and Silence | 7/9/2004 | See Source »

...Sobil says he thinks the overflow was easily predictable, given the low entry charge...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Hit the Sheets ‘Animal House’ Style | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 attracted overflow crowds to Sanders Theater yesterday, as more than 1,000 students, faculty and community members watched him receive the Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony complete with an interview and performance...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Packs Sanders Theater | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...bars and nightclubs and sit in the corner and write songs. It is unthinkable for me to go more than a few days without writing a song." He has had to start three other bands--the 6ths, Future Bible Heroes and the Gothic Archies--just to handle the compositional overflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Jolly Misanthrope | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

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