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...remember why I would frequently take the shuttle from Mather (though upon further reflection, the answer is l’hiver). I have set aside a few afternoons when I didn’t have class to walk until I got lost enough to have to pull out my Paris map. It is getting a lot harder for me to get lost, which I consider a good omen. Not all those who wander are lost, and not all my wandering here has been done for the sake of getting lost. I’ve walked along the Seine at night...
However, he did go along with some pranks. After he was elected to the Lampoon, he and other newly-elected Lampoon writers had to pull pranks around campus as part of “Fools’ Week.” Updike dressed up as a blind beggar in the Yard, while fellow ’Poonsters dressed as priests nearby and cheated him of his money...
...Pull into a BP station this holiday weekend and you may notice a green and yellow starburst over the pump, an image intended to remind you, as you?re emptying your wallet of $20 bills, that at least you?re supporting a green company. BP, after all, was the first oil giant to publicly acknowledge the risks of global warming, back in 1997. The firm has cut its own carbon emissions 10% below 1990 levels and last year established an alternative energies division. It?s investing big money - $8 billion over the next decade - on renewable fuels, such as wind...
...even William's willingness to conceive it may serve as a kind of opening bell in a race by conservatives to pull out early in happy anticipation of their own American province. Episcopalians may find out sooner rather than later what percentage of the national flock is really mad enough to seek another pasture...
...Gaza kidnapping drama highlights a problem facing Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert reminiscent of the famous complaint of fictional Godfather Michael Corleone: "Just when I thought that I was out, they pull me back...