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...reality, the nickname stems from something really innocent, and not Britney-Spears-proclaiming-to-still-be-a-virgin-in-’03 innocent. I mean actually innocent. I got the nickname freshman year, while my friends and I were all sitting around our common room in Weld, which I can now see from my seat in Boylston. As I was leaving to go shower in the hallway bathroom, a friend turned and asked, “Why do you need to shower right now?” Jokingly, someone replied, “Because she’s dirty...
Howell said at 9:15 p.m. last night that fire department officials were going room by room in C-entryway to pinpoint the leak and make sure students had evacuated...
...doing that,” he said. “When the Yankees are losing in a playoff game, I’ll turn all my clothes inside out and stand on the couch upside-down. And if they start doing well no one in the room is allowed to move...
After a year of mostly grim tidings from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Obama could have been allowed a moment of satisfaction. But McChrystal's recounting of the Helmand chieftain's warning ensured that the mood in the White House's Situation Room during the conference call was somber. According to National Security Adviser Jim Jones, who was there, Obama added an exhortation of his own, using the idioms of counterinsurgency warfare. "Do not clear and hold what you are not willing to build and transfer," he told McChrystal, a maxim he had repeated often over the previous months. "You've heard...
...South Korea-Japan rivalry is a given in sports like soccer and baseball, in which victory is a matter of national pride. But it's relatively new in figure skating. Apparently, though, the same rules apply. In the media room of the Pacific Coliseum, the South Korean press occupies one table, while the Japanese media occupies another, like contending military encampments. Indeed, the rivalry is all the more intriguing because of history - an uneasy legacy of the days when Japan occupied Korea and in the eyes of some Koreans, attempted to quash their culture and identity. The continuing...