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Though it has been two weeks since the announcement of the Canadian Rhodes Scholarship winners, Dhand said he is “still in a little bit of a shock...
...speechwriter,” says friend Samuel Graham-Felsen ’03. “She ends up saying things that are so silly and ridiculous, but they’re usually brilliant anyway. I believe her when she says she doesn’t do things to shock. She just can’t bear to do things that are boring...
Already, the people of Bolivia are reeling from the shock. Thousands of Bolivians clamored into McDonald’s restaurants across the country to partake of Ronald’s last supper; some inhabitants of South America’s poorest nation saved up for the entire week to pay for this indulgence. Not only have Bolivians lost its premier provider of Americana, but McDonald’s just lost its highest-elevation branch (in La Paz). And the biggest loser in all of this is the USA, which just lost its greatest ambassador...
...This?” rendered unrecognizeable by the warbling of a female vocalist. And I will try unsuccessfully to reconcile this Christmas carol with the Christmas carol of the same name and roughly the same tune that I have sung in the Rooster Church. It is a horrible shock, like recognizing the features of a grade school friend behind the heavy makeup of one of those young women who loiters in the mall food court. The worst part of the shock is realizing that the potential for cheapness lurked in “What Child Is This...
Think again. If you are within even shouting distance of middle age, chances are you have osteoarthritis, a degenerative disorder in which the cartilage--the natural shock absorber that cushions the insides of your joints--begins to break down. Doctors used to think of it as a disease of old age, but they now believe that this form of arthritis, the most common of about 100 types, begins its relentless, initially painless course when you're still in your 30s, 20s or even younger. Most of the time you won't suspect anything is wrong until you're in your...