Word: shirtful
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...future river residents face years of cramped confinement. But that’s not what Housing Day is about. It’s about the swag. Here’s how to get it all: 1) Go naked. Your winter pastiness should be enough to have people literally throwing shirts at you. 2) Hit up the blocking day Stein Club circuit. Extra perk: free beer. 3) Start your own non-profit claiming to bring Harvard House t-shirts to third-world countries. 4) Surreptitiously sneak under the table and blow the shirt distributors. 5) Go into I-Banking. This delightfully...
Leah H. Pillsbury ’07 strolls into elementary Swahili class a few minutes early, sporting a “Quincy always hot” t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. She settles in a chair, spreads out her notes, and mentally reviews material from the previous class. “Umefanya nini wikendi?” she asks the others, as they take a seat at the round table. After a few minutes of laid-back Swahili chatter about their weekends, Pillsbury stands up and heads toward the blackboard. It’s time for her to begin teaching.Pillsbury...
...High ticket prices prey on the obsessive nature of many Japanese fans, who will happily spend their money on collecting every recording, attending every show and buying the T-shirt. "Artists can be hot one day and not hot the next," says Roderick Morris, the promoter who organized Jackson's Japan events "But they can still come to Japan because fans are still loyal here." (Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson, the Musician...
...Crew got here traces to Drexler's beloved p.a. system, a technology of choice for the hyper-communicative 62-year-old, who wears jeans and an untucked dress shirt to work and uses phrases like "You da man." Drexler, a Bronx Science grad who got an M.B.A., then followed his father, a button buyer, into the clothing business, is always in motion--hence the p.a. system he uses like a high school principal to bark out questions (Who shops online?) and commands (Don't forget to turn off the conference-room lights). On one of his first days, Drexler...
...David Letterman the night before, choosing the most aggressively glib venue to semiofficially announce his candidacy. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was there to make his pitch for 2008 but had to compete with a man who was working the crowd in a dolphin costume and a T-shirt identifying him as "Flip Romney: Just another flip flopper from Massachusetts." Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani barely mentioned the social issues on which he parts ways with conservatives, except to joke, "I don't agree with myself on everything." And the only memorable sound bite of the whole affair came...