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...Harker lends a cadence and lucidity to the nonsense he spews. And David N. Huyssen ’02, playing Dracula sans black cape (it’s white!) but with a dynamite Transylvanian accent, releases sentences into the air with such surety and depth that they linger like smoke rings...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fangs for the Memories | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

Regardless of the new name, debauchery was certainly encouraged. A table of condoms preached safe sex while simultaneously hinting at chance encounters. Bottles of whip cream oozed kinkiness as layers of a cool smoke hid the sticky floor. A curtain replete with a strobe light illuminated the silhouettes of nasty dancers while onlookers grinded to Britney and Destiny’s Child...

Author: By W. L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Chaste or Chased | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...TECH SIGHTS Handheld or weapon-mounted scopes and heat sensors that pinpoint targets through smoke, haze, fog and darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon's Wish List | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...also intended since sputnik in Russian means "fellow traveler." Sumire, a compulsive wanna-be writer, is loved by a young male teacher but she herself has an unrequited crush on an older woman. On a trip to a Greek island with her "girlfriend," the sapphic Sumire disappears "just like smoke." And what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds up as nothing but a shaggy ghost tale. No explanation is given for Sumire's disappearance, unless the reader accepts musings such as "this side is actually the other side" and that "on the flip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Credit Offshore | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

SWITZERLAND Inferno Under The Mountain Two trucks crashed head on, starting a fire in the Gotthard Tunnel that killed at least 11 people. Thick black smoke billowed out of the 16-km tunnel as the blaze, fueled by a load of tires on one of the trucks, reached 980?C, causing part of the tunnel roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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