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...temperature that southern summer evening dipped to a balmy -3?C, and the perfect silence of the sky enveloped me like a blanket. It was then that I understood the quote by Apsley Cherry-Garrand, the 24-year-old member of Captain R.F. Scott's tragic 1910 expedition. "Polar exploration," he wrote, "is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised." And what a beautifully, wonderfully bad time it still remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Floe | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...band raves about its new creative process, and particularly about Yorke's willingness to go along with it. "Just from my point of view," says Selway, "Thom's attitude this time has been the polar opposite to Kid A." Yorke's bandmates are grateful that he's no longer such a pain; they're also thrilled to see him freed from worrying about the global implications of singing rock songs. "For a long time, the whole thing of having to sell my personality affected me," Yorke says. "It took someone like Michael to talk me through the really sticky bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Of The Rock 'N' Roll Heap | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...when I first came here all I really knew how to do was be pale and ice fish,” Hendry said. “But when I first met Curran he taught me how to unleash my inner bronzed Adonis, and I taught him how to hunt polar bears with a hockey stick. So even though I lost, I believe that everyone here is a winner...

Author: By Karoun A. Demirjian, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Votes in Online Beauty Contest To Be Revealed | 5/9/2003 | See Source »

...little bit of a roller coaster,” said junior tri-captain Kara Brotemarkle. “Obviously we were a bit disappointed after Saturday’s performance, elated after Sunday’s—polar ends there...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Strikes Back, Takes Two From League Champion Princeton | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

...love of grinding may be more sexual than intellectual. “Grinding is the best thing about America. You don’t get it in other countries,” Turnbull says, reflecting on the irony of what he sees as America’s strangely bi-polar sensibilities. “You can’t see half-naked people on bus stops, [but] you can grind your genitals against half-naked people in clubs.” Kristel C. Leow ’04 admitted to being shocked by grinding after first arriving from Malaysia...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Foreign Kids in America | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

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