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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Season 3 picks up several months after Season 2 ended, in spring 1963. Don Draper (Jon Hamm), an ad executive who changed his identity to hide his poor background, has returned to his wife Betty (January Jones), who's taken him back after a string of infidelities. Yet in the first episode, when he's away from Betty and sees another chance to adopt a new persona, he slips into it like an old pair of loafers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Men: The Pauses That Refresh | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

This past spring, however, after several decades as a nominal Southern Baptist, Gingrich converted to Catholicism. With the fervor of a convert, he has embraced the role of defending both his new faith and religious liberty. In his 2006 book Rediscovering God in America, Gingrich lambasted what he calls the "secular effort to reject any sense of a spiritual life as mattering." And days before he officially joined the Catholic Communion on March 29, he was among the first to criticize the University of Notre Dame for inviting Barack Obama to speak, Twittering (of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Newt Gingrich Converted to Catholicism | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Intramural crew: 1. The sport of participants who wake up when everyone else is going to sleep. 2. Legitimate excuse for making a general mockery of your senior spring coursework (see Extension...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Formal: 1. What you called a prom in high school. 2. House dances you’ll be attending in the spring (or the fall, if you get asked by that cute sophomore in section!) 3. Also known collectively as “The Balls...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...Spring: 1. Traditionally March, April, and May. 2. Doesn’t exist at Harvard, where temperatures jump directly from “Inside the Arctic Circle” to “Inside Of Your Mouth...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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