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After spending the summer in residence at the Georgetown baseball team house while working at the State Department, Helen Carnegie Bobbsey ’04 felt that her new suite in Kirkland was somewhat lacking. To make herself feel more at home, Bobbsey broke several windows, started a small electrical fire, tossed used condoms about like rose petals, ripped the bathroom sink off the wall, installed an 11 foot stripper pole in the common room and invited two local homeless men to come and crap in her closet. “Now the place...
Under the agreement, the clerical workers will receive pay increases adding up to 44 percent over the next eight years, according to The New York Times. The provisions for the maintenance and dining hall workers are somewhat smaller, raising their wages by 32 percent over the next eight years. The increases will bring the Yale workers’ wages closer in line with their counterparts at Harvard and elsewhere, and will boost the wages of custodial workers significantly ahead of Harvard’s rates...
When asked what his strength’s were he somewhat grudgingly admitted, “Well I’m tough. I’m used to collegiate football. I really love blocking and having a good day for the offensive line...
...between Chirac and Bush - one that Blair can no longer pull off - he would never risk a public break with a France that has become Germany's battered twin not only in the Iraq debate, but in many other controversies in Europe as well. Chirac has muted his position somewhat on Iraq, and no one is talking about a French veto this time. In Berlin, the French President spoke of a transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people "within a few months"; a mere week before, his excitable Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, had demanded it "within a month...
...administration officials who, when facing a clamor over the failure to find weapons of mass destruction early in the summer, called for patience and expressed confidence that the group led by former UNSCOM official David Kay would prove the existence of such weapons. Subsequently, officials began to downshift somewhat, stressing that evidence would be found of programs to build weapons, but not necessarily any actual weapons. But Kay himself may also have contributed to raising expectations during his Capitol Hill report-back in July, when he hinted that doubters were in for surprises when he issued his report...