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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Weekend in October devoted to a massive crew race. 2. When college and prep-school students descend on Cambridge to get drunk. 3. When your roommates will invite total strangers to drink, party, and pass out in your room. 4. A good weekend (October 21-22, this year) to skip town...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...seven hours to see our family in Kentucky. Therefore, spending 60 minutes on the train from my town to Chicago in the mornings and evenings barely seems like an inconvenience at all. Sure, walking twenty-five minutes to work makes the walk to the Quad seem like a hop, skip, and a jump, but after sitting on the train for an hour, it feels great. My mixed commute is like a win-win Catch-22—which is a reference I now feel alright using, considering I’ve actually had a chance to read the book this...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: To and From Home | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...Francisco is renowned for its use of garlic, even in cocktails. This book presents simple but sublime recipes for pungent pastas, garlic-encrusted baby back ribs, creamy garlic-spinach fondue, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic and, right, pizzas. The faint of heart or palate, however, may want to skip the garlic ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Restaurant Cookbooks to Keep You Dining In | 7/24/2006 | See Source »

...Alps, gaining third place and ultimately the yellow jersey that signifies first place in the world's most grueling sports event. "He went from the penthouse to the outhouse to the moon," said his coach, Robbie Ventura. The new superstar will celebrate with hip-replacement surgery. And we skip the gym because our back kind of hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 31, 2006 | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...Gabrielle arrives just in time: July 14, Bastille Day, commemorating the start of the French Republic. (Two other French films, Laurent Cantet's Heading South and François Ozon's Time to Leave, have their U.S. theatrical premieres this month as well, but, entre nous, you can skip them.) Based on Joseph Conrad's story The Return, the film, written by Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic, concentrates the anguish and ego-busting of marital life into a few days in the lives of two people: Jean (Pascal Greggory) and Gabrielle (Isabelle Huppert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off With Their Hearts! | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

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