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...according to Lowell House resident tutor and senior Klappermeister Benjamin I. Rapoport ’03. This fact, however, has not dampened the spirits of the students who climb the stairs to the bell tower every Sunday to create the jovial—if mildly clamorous—bell-ringing festivities.The Lowell House bells were purchased from the Soviet Union by Charles R. Crane, who presented them as a gift to Harvard in 1930. Since the fall of the USSR and the end of forced secularism in Russia, the monks of the Danilov Monastery—whence the bells originate?...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hark, Hear The Bells, Sweet Russian Bells | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...Thailand you have three chances to ring in the New Year. On Dec. 31, western New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties, concerts and fireworks. A few weeks later the country stages massive celebrations in honor of Chinese New Year. Finally, on April 13 Thailand celebrates the first day of the traditional Thai calendar with Songkran, a three-day festival marked by parades, feasts and a water-throwing free-for-all in which people roam the streets with squirt guns, bowls of water and garden hoses, drenching passersby--and themselves--in the process. The water represents purification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Where to Celebrate | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Starbucks fancies itself a small company, which might ring a little odd, considering that the coffee giant is regularly parodied as being practically unavoidable. Well, the joke is only going to get funnier as the Seattle firm, with its shareholders clearly in mind, gets even bigger, selling more stuff, from hot food to hot music, in more places than ever before. Right now Big Green runs 12,440 locations worldwide, but the goal is 40,000, which would trump even McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Gulp at Starbucks | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...Right now the two Democrats throwing their hat in the ring for 2008 are Tom Vilsack and Evan Bayh. To give you an idea of how unknown these guys are, their Secret Service code names are Tom Vilsack and Evan Bayh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Dec. 18, 2006 | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

David P. Clemens, a software developer and chief architect at Cambridge-based Ascent Technology, told The Crimson he was on the fifth floor when the fire alarms went off. The office lights flickered, and he heard a rumble just as the alarms began to ring, he said. When he and about 100 other workers tried to escape through the stairwells, he said, they found them crowded with thick smoke...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Building Fire Kills 1, Sends 800 Fleeing for Safety | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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