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...nobody on this campus knows who I am, and just treats me like any other dog. I’m the First Dog. I do my business in the digging site in the Yard. Respect me. 2) One of the archeology kids smacked me in the head with a shovel today. No respect at all. 3) Everyone knows Clio is spelled C-L-E-O, Drew. Nobody thinks I know how to spell my own name. 4) Sometimes, when we’re by ourselves, Drew and I dress up in matching business suits. This make us feel powerful...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Things the Dog Told the Shrink | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...Look what we almost stepped in,'" he says. "When you have all this machinery and the clock is ticking and the dollars are just going out the window, most people panic. Paul says, 'All right, we're in a hole right now, and everybody needs to put down the shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Bourne Boys Keep it Real | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Having fortified himself against the cold with a few big gulps from his booze bottle Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) emerges into the winter wonderland of Buffalo, N.Y., to shovel the snow from his walk. His motivational method is simple: he tosses the bottle into a drift a few feet ahead of him, clears the white stuff from the path until he reaches his vodka, takes another bracing slug of the stuff, tosses the bottle ahead of him again and repeats his ritual. Eventually he will be fully bombed and his walk will be fully cleared. Unless, of course, hypothermia gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Kill Me: Gently Winning | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

Bill France Jr. was smaller and quieter but no less visionary or hardworking than his dad. During the construction of Daytona International, he would be on site dawn to dusk, driving a bulldozer, wielding a shovel, whatever had to be done. Later he would work at the family racetracks as a flagman or scorer. He was ready for the reins when they were given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Road: Bill France Jr. (1933-2007) | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...began working for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1993, was convinced that the fort lay instead somewhere close to the brick church tower built in 1690, the only surviving structure from the colony's first century. So on April 4, 1994, he put his shovel in the ground, and less than an hour later turned up fragments of early 17th century ceramics. Over the next few months, Kelso and a team of volunteers uncovered a series of circular stains in the soil--the marks of logs that had once stood upright but had long since rotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Archaeology: Eureka! | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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