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These days, I don't have my trusted "busy" excuse to keep my thoughts from wandering. Except for maybe watching soap operas, free time makes me uncomfortable. I feel a little lost when I see my friends racing off to meetings and I don't have four per day anymore. I thought about taking six classes, devoting morning meeting time to hardcore workouts, learning how to ballroom dance or volunteering at a hospital...
...Summerville, S.C., Rick Reinert has built a small business called Reha Enterprises that sells bath oil, soap and other supplies. But now he is selling many of his products, imported from Germany, at no profit or at a loss. This is the result of an order by the U.S. government...
...Saranjit Shah '02 just loves shopping period...First-year prankster Ian T. Williamston '03 was one-upped by his disgruntled Primal Scream victims. Streakers who slipped on the section of the path where Mr. Williamston had poured water before Primal Scream banded together and beat him with bars of soap, a la Full Metal Jacket. "I didn't think it was funny to see Ian get hurt, but the overall effect was funny. Also, him getting hurt turned out to be pretty funny after all." said Margaret C. Lee '03...Jill Hill '00 caused quite a stir in the Winthrop...
...between news organizations and their business-oriented owners. Corporate-media interactions always raise questions of bias, such as when Time magazine (owned by Time Warner) hyped the movie "Twister" and other, similarly mediocre Warner Brothers movies on its front cover. We expect that when a character in a daytime soap opera uses a well-known product, it might be a product that is advertised on the network...
Gandhi bathed in water but used ashes instead of soap and had himself shaved with a dull straight razor because new blades were too expensive. He was always sweeping up excrement that others left around. Cleanliness, he believed, was godliness. But his passion for sanitation was not just finicky hygiene. He wanted to teach Indian villagers that human and animal filth caused most of the disease in the land...