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...time to govern,” wrote Dems President Eric P. Lesser ’07 in an e-mail to his organization. The Dems saw victory for three of five campaigns the group supported, for which students made more than 10,000 phone calls and knocked on close to 20,000 doors, according to Lesser. HRC Membership Director Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the group views now as a time to “reenergize the base and regroup in time for 2008.” “It’s only a hiatus...
...days after I returned from winter break my freshman year, my mom gave birth to my twin siblings, Adam and Mariam. I was on speaker phone for the hours it took to choose their names. It’s an arduous process in a Lebanese family. Do you name after the grandfather? Which side? Have you slighted any uncles? Luckily, enough people have had children in my family that just about everyone over the age of 20 has a namesake or two (even...
...adopted the stories that have been shared by my parents and siblings over the phone as my own memories. Once, at a precious 14 months, Mariam was in the living room when she disappeared from view. After some franctic searching, my sister found her hiding in a corner of the dining room struggling to poop into her diaper. The polite yet constipated baby didn’t want to do the deed in front of the family. Adorable, non? The shitting business makes for good story-telling. When they were getting potty trained last year, Mariam would accompany Adam...
...Boston’s Newbury Comics last Wednesday, the fans waiting to meet Flavor Flav did more than embody dedication. Compulsively glancing at the clocks which dangled from so many of their necks, they comprised the latest episode in a bewildering apotheosis. One bystander, talking loudly on his cell phone, struggled to weave through the raucous throng. “These people are all here for Flavor Flav,” he said, before pausing. “Flavor Flav? He’s, like, one of the worst rappers ever.” “That?...
...past security?’, and I asked for another photo where I pointed my gun at her and she had her hands up—and she said, ‘No, that’s it,’” Saadi said in a phone interview. “The whole encounter with the picture was, like, a 15-second thing...