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...there. I try to stick with something I like. But you go to a competition and will always find some interesting costumes.13. FM: Speaking of costumes, earlier this year I know that you went to a competition and forgot your dress back at the hotel... any other embarrassing pre-competition stories?EH: That was pretty embarrassing... but I was focused: I had my skates and I was pretty ready to get out there. It would’ve been funny if I was out there in pants and everyone else had on their little dress. I think that...
...playing just some game online,” he says. “You’re playing for the sake of your loyalty to your school.” If so, Harvard kids better pull out those Crimson sweatshirts that have been rotting away in closets since Pre-Frosh Weekend: registration has begun, and it doesn’t look promising. “If it comes down to school spirit, I think we’re going to lose,” said Joseph S. Bechtold ’08, who has already registered...
...nation must place proportionate weight on both the majority views that have comprised its historical past and the current changes that are catalyzing its future. The one thing that must not happen among immigrant generations is for pre-existing American values to assert superiority over foreign ones by sheer virtue of their predominance. Which values persist and which ones fade away should be recognized and questioned on their own grounds, not left to the realm of the inarticulate psychological subconscious...
...soon to tell the final damage of this week's fires, the reduced number of fatalities and lost structures ultimately might be attributed to lessons learned since the Cedar fire. Among the changes since then is a new reverse 911 system that automatically calls homeowners with a pre-recorded message warning them if they are in a mandatory evacuation zone. All schools in the county are closed this week, mail delivery was halted and businesses ranging from corporate offices to sandwich shops were closed. People were urged to stay home. Those who did venture out became snarled in traffic jams...
...course, those of us who still remember the pre-application college visit know that it can be a uniquely traumatizing experience. My form of pseudo-public humiliation always came at the library stop on the campus tour, where my mom would wave her hand wildly and shout to the unsuspecting student guide, “Do you have open stacks...