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...blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

After more than three decades of critical acclaim and many visits to the best-seller list, Hillerman had a favorite anecdote, often repeated. It was about his first agent, who told him that if he wanted to have success as a writer, he'd have to get rid of "all that Indian stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Hillerman | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...immature metaphors are purposefully off-putting. Barlow compares pigtail fat to nose mucus: “Underneath [the skin of the pig tail] is a layer of blubber...The fatty skin disintegrates as it comes away, gooking up my fingers like boogers that I can’t get rid of no matter where I wipe.” And his juxtapositions are equally nauseating. Passages about homemade chorizo are interrupted with descriptions of bovine flatulence and sloughed foot calluses. And because his journey is so ill-defined, we can’t even breathe a sigh of relief...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Everything' Missing Somethin' | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...have to be. If you want to do something nice, go for it. It’s important to keep an open mind,” Batt says. “Try to keep it really simple, go with one or two color palettes, and get rid of all the clutter...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pimp My Dorm Room | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Primack said. “A fire sale is when you get what you can and move on, whereas a yard sale means ‘we’ve got a lot of stuff in the garage and could use some extra space by getting rid of some of the old stuff.’” Private equity has traditionally been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning an annualized return of 28.5 percent over the past 10 years. This return has been lower in more recent years, though, coming...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Risky Assets May Be Sold Off | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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