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...driving drab cars like the Nissan Sentra left her underwhelmed. Then she spotted the Mazda3, a sporty four-cylinder hatchback launched in 2003. You might think of hatchbacks as wheezy econoboxes from the 1970s. But Dekat, 22, a loan processor from Dallas, liked the Mazda's svelte style and pep; she pictured herself blasting U2 out the windows and impressing her friends. "I fell in love with it at first sight," she says...
...years? Why, they made the Harvard fans hold up signs that said “WE SUCK” for at least the hundred thousandth of second needed to take the picture that graces the front page of the wittily titled www.harvardsucks.org. 20 Elis wearing “Harvard Pep Squad” t-shirts and claiming that they lived in “HoPfo” passed out 1800 pieces of paper to the home crowd, assuring the Harvard fans that they would spell out “GO HARVARD.” The fans, most of whom gave...
David Aulicino, a Yale senior, said that there were 20 students in the pep squad and “many other friends everywhere helping us to pull it off.” Perhaps most surprisingly, Michael Kai, also a Yale senior, said that he had Harvard support, and that “there was a guy in the band who helped me out getting into the stands.” But even more shocking than the revelation of traitors in our midst is the amount of resources that were spent to make the prank the “epic?...
Harvard itself is swamped with students getting back to their lives, with boring tasks like “homework” and “social interaction.” But as the Harvard Pep Squad will tell you, who needs lives when you have pranks...
...watchers from both parties could enter precincts and scan the lists of voters to see who had turned out and who had not. Then they called their war rooms so volunteers--the Republicans called them flushers--could call the voters who hadn't yet cast a ballot, give a pep talk, offer a ride. In Franklin County the board of elections handed out more than 800 cell phones to the nonpartisan precinct judges there so they could call the board to report any problems or ask questions. In the end "the good people of central Ohio have kept their cool...