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They live off popcorn, cat food, margarine mixed with sugar, crates of cantaloupes that fell off a train and worse. "Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," her mother asks her hungry kids, with glittery-eyed logic, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?" Finally they fetch up in a tiny, tilting, unplumbed house in the Appalachians. "'It's good we raised you young 'uns to be tough,' Dad says. 'Because this is not a house for the faint of heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Parent Booby Trap | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

Courtyard legends would be born. Stories will be retold years from now about how The House Master left his footprints on the backboard, Popcorn Chicken dunked blindfolded, and The Senior Tutor jumped over that...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COYNE TOSS: Bring Dunks Our Way | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Does the food at Annenberg get better with age? “I’ve dined at Annenberg on and off over the last 14 years, and I have to say that I have a certain weakness for the popcorn chicken,” he says. When asked about the lovely Domna, Selsby says, “she and I go way back...

Author: By Michelle Cerulli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Proctor Scoped! Ten Years in the Yard, and Counting | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...p.m.Outside Loker Commons, students with IDs of varying authenticity jostle each other in a line rivaling Annenberg’s on popcorn chicken night. The doors to Harvard’s inaugural Pub Night are still closed, and Zachary A Corker ’04, mastermind of the joke, is MIA. “Hurlbut? Canaday?” yells a male undergrad, eagerly eyeing some female specimens. “They’re all freshmen...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Night in the Life of the Fun Czar | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...residency changed interactions between men and women beyond the pool. In the Quad, it became normal to see men’s legs in the shower and shaving cream on the ledge. The Quad women who had harassed men in their suites learned how to become just friends, making popcorn and cookies in the kitchen. Sex took a side seat to friendship...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love the Boy Next Door | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

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