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...People don’t eat all their food.” Custodians and yard garbage collectors will see a rat every two or three months, according to Gogan. They “learn to go around and kick the barrels before they dump them” to scare away rats, he said. —Staff writer Shifra B. Mincer can be reached at smincer@fas.harvard.edu...
...quite well to a number of performances, but perhaps not as well as some acts would have hoped. Singers in the Qawwali love song “Ali Ali” performed quite well, but the audience was reluctant to respond to their urgings to clap along. Presumably to scare the audience into participating, the lighting staff flashed the lights on members in the crowd. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Lighting and sound mishaps, while none of them major unto themselves, nonetheless became minor nuisances to a number of acts and interacts. Performers overcame the problems...
Feehan and Hamilton take their subject seriously, but not all do. In Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson, a former model uses her can't-be-killed status to scare the bejesus out of her stepmother, who did a postmortem heist of all her Manolo Blahniks (a shoe brand that pops up in these books a lot; the designer must offer a specter discount). It ends happily for our heroine, although these books are not the kind that necessarily conclude with a wedding. It's probably safer that way, given that for vampires, "till death do us part...
...respectively from last year, according to The Daily Princetonian and The Daily Pennsylvanian. Bruce J. Breimer, director of college guidance at Collegiate High School in New York City, said he disagreed with Fitzsimmons’ reasoning.An increase in rejections the previous year is “not going to scare away someone for whom an application is appropriate,” Breimer said. “You don’t make it a negative self-fulfilling prophecy by refusing to apply.”Total applications hit record highs this year at Penn, Princeton, and Yale—which...
...project a manly ideal as an example to my students. Sure, I occasionally giggle, but I’m working on it. In any case, I tried to scare off all the women from the course, but this one girl didn’t seem to get the message (culinary school). Her first paper started off, “As a woman…” I stopped reading and gave her the “Gentleman?...