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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sadly, hot bodies won’t help you with obscure questions that range from geography (What’s the river that runs through Dublin?) to the profoundly disturbing (How many books in the Harvard University library system are known to be bound in human skin?). If you can’t, for some reason, answer these questions, start hitting the books: Prizes include a $30 gift certificate and enough beer to make your herpes-ridden neighbors look pretty damn good. So, if you get that itch to compete, Uno’s trivia nights are Sundays...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Booze Gives You All the Answers | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...also game when Brener insisted—with purported paternal concern—that “the bottom line is, honey, you show too much skin,” shooting back naughtily, “Are you going to be complaining about that later, daddy...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kisses, Drag Greet Johansson | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...whites. But a blanket affirmative-action policy like the kind in place in the U.S. is a nonstarter in Europe. "There is such diversity among different minorities, with some greatly outperforming even the white majority, that to have laws that just benefit you because of the color of your skin is mad," says Mulgan. In Britain, the average salary for an Indian is almost double that of a Pakistani and, across Europe, the Chinese do better at work and at school than native whites. So an employer could fill its antidiscrimination quota and still do nothing to help minorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Europe | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...first official president in 1640, Dunster’s reign would last until 1654, during which he managed to operate the un-endowed University with an annual budget of 175 pounds. In 1650 President Dunster secured Harvard’s charter from the General Court of Massachusetts. The sheep-skin document, which outlines the basis of Harvard’s governing body, is used to this...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning a New Page | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...elbows. Around my wrists where the handcuffs had cut into my flesh, blood and pus continue to ooze out of the wounds. My nails were purple and felt as if they were going to fall off. I touched the back of each hand, only to find the skin and flesh numb. I tried to curl up my fingers but could not because they were the size of carrots. I prayed to God to help me recover the use of my hands. After a while, I tried to get up. But I had to stifle a cry of pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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