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...their cappuccinos. To those of you who spend your Saturdays in the airy, mostly sweet-smelling spaces of Lamont Café or the Widener Stacks, never needing to elbow anyone more threatening than a group of Weld freshmen in order to secure yourself a spot: Don’t smirk and fold your arms complacently. This could be you sooner than you think...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Save Saturday! | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

While Gaylor insists that Dayton locals have gotten more and more backward over the years, Davis says that's not so. "We have a public school system that's accredited by the state," he says with a smirk. "Our kids seem to score appropriately on state tests. We even have some people with college degrees. So the H.L. Mencken attitude is tiresome. It's as ignorant as we're proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Evolution Fight at Site of Scopes 'Monkey Trial' | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...snack taunts him from behind the glass. Climbing up the stairs to his room, he can only think of two things: hunger and revenge. Suddenly, after hours of scheming, he comes up with a plan to outsmart the greedy vending machine schemers. Wearing only his boxers and a knowing smirk, he runs from the dormitory to the nearest convenience store, grabs the first box of Pop Tarts he sees, and pays only 8 dollars for the whole box! What a deal! Cackling madly, he rips open the cardboard container to get to his spoils, only to find that his search...

Author: By Crimson arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: By Its Cover: Kleinknecht, Yessayan, Gans, Reyn | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Bush, George W. • final Gallup numbers for show disapproval rating second only to Nixon's • final smirk-riddled press conference by fails to win over critics of • history of response to Katrina of is brazenly rewritten by • Larry King is told by how much being called a racist hurt the feelings of • question about possible regret by for ignoring August 6, 2001, CIA briefing memo is not asked by any reporters at last press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...areas of the franchise. Gone were Bond's double-entendre jokes, his easy connoisseurship, the suggestion that life was a game in which he luckily held the high cards. Now it's kill or be killed. The evils of the world are too daunting to be met with a smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quantum of Solace: Bourne-Again Bond | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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