Word: rains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Contest." It seems that FM s crack team of personnel managers couldn t find a single other person capable of operating a manually focusing camera. Josh stood in line for over seven hours, amidst hoards of dirty, scary people, in-you guessed it-the pouring rain, just so he could take a photograph of Times Square that we probably could have lifted off of any one of three dozen postcards. For those of you have been wondering who s been monopolizing all of those Wednesday afternoon appointments at UHS Mental Health, let s just say Frontier Land is a tough...
...that. The right "-ism" will be worth going to jail for. The right "-ism" will be all I need to be happy. I want to want to pour my heart into something, to lay everything I care about on the line. I want to run out into the pouring rain half-naked and scream at the sky. I want to stop asking my boss if I can use the bathroom, and take a bus to the Pacific Coast in Mexico. I want to chip away at a wall for 19 years and watch as the final layer cracks and crumbles...
...Christopher J. Perriello '99, bought basins, drains and pumps, and screwed them together to create a tropical waterfall with a six-foot drop in his dorm room. The fluorescence mixed in with the water gleamed under his black lights. Outside, the cold New England ground was wet with gray rain, but inside, warm tropical water splashed down to a rock beach dotted in shells and starfish. Perriello painted fluorescent mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large beach reeds...
...drip all over him, I get a little unsolicited help from a sudden loud buzzing noise--the first crisis of the evening. It seems the fog of the London Fog party has activated the smoke alarm. I quickly leave the building and step out into the ominous beginnings of rain. We regroup and head down Mass. Ave. towards MIT. The drizzling subsides, and Tad describes his ADP party experience...
...kids don't know how easy you have it. Back in my day, we walked to school, uphill both ways, in the snow or rain or sleet, mind you - and on top of all that, we even took our own tests. That was in the days before teachers and administrators at 32 New York City public schools allegedly started "helping" their students with statewide tests, when kids actually had to know something about reading, writing and arithmetic to get passed to the next grade. For the last five years, claims special investigator Edward Stancik, some kids have just waltzed into...