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...dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...
...assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare the tea but not before showing us a golden bell we can use to summon him. We hunger. We ring. He runs. Six seconds. Jeeves would be proud...
...sixth - count 'em - term as Chicago's mayor. Four of his closest aides, included his patronage chief, were convicted last summer on corruption charges, while a federal probe of the city's hiring practices continued. Around the same time, a court-ordered investigation detailed an elaborate torture ring operated - and later covered up - by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s until the '90s. What's more, in an unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing an ordinance to boost the wages that Big Box employers like Wal-Mart and Target would have...
...unified marvels. Let us ask ourselves if too many hours haven’t already been fed to the idol of Facebook in place of hearty dinners with friends. How many much-needed moments of solitude are drowned out by iTunes, or conversations are shattered by shrill ring tones? We should, of course, buy and enjoy our armadas of gadgetry, but not forget that they all come with an “Off” switch, and no natural law commands us to keep them ever next to our hearts. Perhaps a day at Harvard shorn of cell phone, iPod...
...Students for Obama” plans to get in touch with the campaign as soon as it can and initiate trips to New Hampshire in the spring, according to group member Nathaniel J. Lubin ’09. Obama is expected to formally throw his hat into the ring Feb. 10. —Staff writer Marie C. Kodama can be reached at mckodama@fas.harvard.edu...