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...completely single: We have no open place to hang out and flirt openly. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine commented a few years back that loneliness is the biggest problem facing Harvard students. Yes, quality time in your room alone on a weekend night staring at a pile of books is as lonely and depressing as it gets. And yet nice, fun Harvard students do it every weekend. In a school with a vested interest in the mental health of its students, you would think the administration would take the initiative to give students a place to hang out. Really...
...reading plenty of commentary on the importance of oil security to the American economy. Granted, nobody is likely to justify military action by the need to preserve access to Middle East crude, a common refrain at the time of the Gulf War 10 years ago. There's a pile of rubble in New York City that provides more eloquent justification for armed force. But since Osama bin Laden has referred to the Saudi oilfields as "a large economic power essential for the soon-to-be-established Islamic state," it's worth assessing how vulnerable the U.S. is to supply interruptions...
...unknowingly consumed three very pot-laced cookies, washing them down with hefty gulps of the Beam. Later Amir was notified that the cookies were special recipe. “I don’t feel baked,” he muttered over and over to a pile of rocks...
South Station was evacuated on Saturday for an hour after an official spotted a pile of white powder near an Amtrak ticket counter. Fire and police officials in HAZMAT suits determined the powder to be laundry detergent...
...days last week because of bioterrorism scares. An SUV cab on its way to a Capitol Hill party was stopped because it bore an unfamiliar logo. Georgetown was nearly shut down Thursday night when the Hash House Harriers, a running club which marks each mile covered with a pile of white flour, was mistaken for anthrax-spewing members of Al Qaeda. Yet at former Majority leader Mike Mansfield's burial at Arlington Cemetery last week, with half the Senate in attendance, only those who entered on the Fort Myer side got the dog-sniffing and mirror under the chassis treatment...