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...Oyalowo? More like oy vey! Nick Hartigan’s replacement at running back, Akin Oyalowo, has managed just 124 yards through two games. DiGiacomo, the polished senior, can’t do it by himself, as seen in last week’s drubbing by Harvard...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rating Passers, Ignoring Wikipedia | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...show that made one think about the past in a certain way. Anyone who watched could see I was a fan of Howdy Doody and the Mickey Mouse Club. It was designed to be a show that kids could watch with their parents. Parents didn?t have to feel, ?Oy, I have to watch this horrible show.? It was gratifying over the years to hear parents say that they watched with their kids and loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pee-wee's Small Adventure | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...innovations didn't please every Times solver. "You are sick, sick, sick," goes one of the letters Shortz reads aloud in Wordplay. Another correspondent is polite but perplexed: "This kvetching thing that's going on, I can't seem to get a grasp on it. 'The kvetcher's cry': 'Oy vey'? I don't get it. How is it used? Is it a Northern thing?" But most puzzlers I know are pleased with his work. More than that: he has given fresh life to their daily preoccupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

...gaggle of troubled, but not too troubled, teens get empowered and mimic the “black power” salute. The song’s lyrics, so deep that they’re meaningless, are written as by an invisible hand, graffiti-style, on the wall. Oy. -Richard S. Beck

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pop Screen: Matisyahu | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

...Welshmen came storming into the smoky room. Being regular Canadian girls, we tried to appear as nonchalant as possible (as if strapping UK studs were just old news) as the loudest of the lot picked up Marissa’s jacket from the floor and said, “Oy, did you drop this then...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, | Title: A Tongue Of Their Own | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

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