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Members also composed much poetry and song dedicated to their secrecy. The following poem, dated 1909, was written in their record book: All jolly Clubbers off on a spree Out from Cambridge, in Wellesley Not at all where we said we would be Sssh – ssssh – sssssh!... Our steps fly to the Worcester Cars that we have grown so used to Our blackballed friends are always on the car Yet cheerfully we meet them and With pleasant lies we greet them And we go, and none shall Tell them where...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Old Girls’ Club | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...Most Lavish Home-Shopping Spree The QVC network's $10.5 billion bid to buy Paramount Communications. Paramount had hoped to merge with TV conglomerate Viacom. But QVC's Barry Diller, who can build grudges into empires, vowed to take over his old studio by wooing or warring. The courts, and finally Paramount's board, agreed to give him the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST SHOW BUSINESS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...mobile entertainment. Collegehumor is one of his company’s clients so he informed me of the contest and told me I should enter,” Shoemaker says. “I thought it would be amusing and who doesn’t want a shopping spree in NYC and a chance at a modeling contract?” Unfortunately, Shoemaker did not emerge victorious from a tough first round match-up with Becky K, a sul- try brunette from Walden University in Colorado. Jay J. Ku ’05, her boyfriend, takes the loss well...

Author: By Theodore E. Skowronski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Humor Reminds Us That We Aren’t Quite As Fugly As We Thought | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...home to 1.5 million Palestinians. Abbas' predecessor, Yasser Arafat, used to send Abu Samhadana $10,000 a month, but Abbas ended those payments in February. Without such support, Abu Samhadana's army is filled with jobless (and armed) men who have been expressing their frustration by going on a spree of kidnappings and assassinations. "Gaza is in security chaos," says Abu Samhadana. "Every Palestinian citizen is in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's New Strongmen | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...while president of the state bar, Miers wrote in the publication Texas Lawyer about the effect on the criminal justice system of an episode in a Fort Worth courthouse, where in July of that year, a man angry about his divorce went on a shooting spree, killing two lawyers and wounding two judges and a prosecutor before surrendering at a TV station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sampling of the Writings of Harriet Miers | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

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