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...then it happened. The ring—quietly purchased months earlier and stashed in a sock drawer in Switzerland during a summer-long internship—was produced from inside a camera case. On one knee after all, Silvestri made his proposal. The answer? “Absolutely...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wedding: Michael P. Silvestri ’10 and Liza Pope | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...protection from hungry teammates who have gone over to the dark side, humans can “stun” zombies for an hour with either a water gun, nerf gun, or by pelting them with a sock...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kirkland Faces Zombie Infestation | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

This opening eases us into the slight sock hop feel of “Silver Soul,” which sounds precisely like the “medicine for heartache” that the lyrics promise. The back-up vocals harmonize furtively but effectively with Legrand’s voice, which itself seems possessed by the love of which she sings. The incredible standard of the songwriting is revealed by the constantly shifting references to an “It,” which appears at the beginning as “a vision, complete illusion...

Author: By Kelsey C. Nowell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beach House | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

Bank analyst John McDonald of Wall Street firm Bernstein Research says most people are focused on how the lack of loans will hurt bank earnings. Lending is, after all, how banks make money. But in the past year or so, banks have had to sock away more and more cash into their reserves to account for their growing number of bad loans. That's caused earnings to plummet. With loans falling, reserve ratios - the measure of reserves to loans - are growing. That means banks will be able to divert less profit into those rainy-day accounts, which should boost bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bank Lending Is Still Down. Should We Be Worried? | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...bulging bosom and a blond mane over her empty head - except in the season after her hair got singed off in the great Mega Lo Mart propane explosion - Luanne worked as a beautician and, on the side, a performer on a local cable TV station with her Christian sock puppets, the Manger Babies (one of whom was an octopus). In the early years she had a feckless boyfriend named Buckley, until he died in the propane blast. She later dated a series of jerks (voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton) and finally married one of them (Tom Waits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Brittany Murphy Is Worth Remembering | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

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