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Prichard, a tall, slender Canadian with a slight but discernable accent, gestures broadly to explain that “Thirsty Thursday” is a direct response to what he finds unpleasant about Harvard’s social life. “Fuck going out to Final Clubs or pretentious bars where there are people we don’t like,” he exclaims. “Why not just get our friends here with...
...June 1961, less than two months after the CIA disaster in Cuba, President Kennedy journeyed to Vienna to meet with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev, who was built along the lines of a Soviet tank, sized up the slender young American President and mistakenly assumed he could be pushed around. Knowing that J.F.K. was still reeling from the CIA's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, he threatened to move against Berlin. "It will be a cold winter," Kennedy said. As matters turned out, it was a cold October the next year. Emboldened by the U.S. defeat...
...report this week. As for the broader market, ?we would not expect a quick military victory to completely eliminate risks." At best, "it will bring a sigh of relief to equity investors and refocus attention on the fundamental backdrop." A backdrop which still includes the earnings woes and slender profits that beset much of corporate America with or without the uncertainty in the Middle East...
...Tall and slender, distinguished by a thoughtful reserve and slightly unkempt gray hair, Santiago Leon walks and talks more like a New England college professor than a Miami rabble rouser. In 1990 he gave up his career as a lawyer because selling insurance sounded more exciting. And yet, throughout his life, Leon has been drawn to protest. In the '80s, he led the Dade County Citizens for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze. This fall, with fellow members of the Coral Gables Congregational Church and other like-minded people, he helped launch Concerned People Opposed to War in Iraq. Leon prefers intellectual...
...says his best memory from his single semester of FM glory was rubbing (slender) shoulders with the world’s future leaders, when he photographed presidential wannabes for the acclaimed FM scrut. However, the eds know his most miraculous, graphic moment was when he made the eds look a) well-rested, b) not on drugs and c) slender and svelte in their outgoing pics. (See outgoing execs, page...