Word: pit
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Fueled by emptiness, looking for resolution, staring blankly, you manage to stand it. You talk to your friends in the pit, fist-pumping for what seems like an hour straight, and make jokes asking them if this is the riot for the WNBA Championship...
After House majority leader Tom DeLay redrew his old rival Martin Frost's district out of existence a year ago, Frost, a veteran Congressman, decided to stand in another one, the 32nd. The incumbent there, freshman Pete Sessions, suddenly faces a pit bull of a campaigner in a battle that will probably be the most expensive House race in the country, with each side expected to spend $4 million. With the candidates trading charges of poster stealing and arguing over who is tougher on child kidnappers, neither one may come out of this ugly fight looking like a winner...
...addition to helping voters register before tomorrow’s deadline, Johnson said she organized Sunday’s event in the Pit to draw attention to specific bills that have died in the Massachusetts legislature...
Just in time to save the nation’s justice system from drowning in a pit of hellfire, the Rev. Jerry Falwell has established a new law school which he promises “will be as far to the right as Harvard is to the left.” Huh, we thought Princeton already had that covered. Falwell’s law school, an arm of his esteemed Liberty University, will educate its students in a “principled Christian approach to the practice of law”—as opposed to the God-hating...
This year, Harvard Square’s political activism is moving out of the Pit and into the mainstream. Even Harvard’s athletes are banding together, determined to make a difference in the upcoming election. Nate T. Picarsic ’07, a wrestler from Pittsburgh, PA, is afraid that “young people won’t vote” in November’s election...