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...than passively accepting his fate, Jones, 67, is fighting back. A decade ago, when he and some fellow retirees realized that their pensions didn't include promised cost-of-living increases, they started the Association of BellTel Retirees, one of hundreds of groups of disaffected former employees that have sprung up in the U.S. to lobby for retirement benefits. As president of the BellTel group, Jones uses the Internet and e-mail to send daily newsletters and legislative alerts to the group's 110,000 members. He's also proven himself to be skilled at corporate politics, successfully orchestrating...
...Crimson killed off Paul Dufault’s tripping penalty at 9:23, but just two seconds after Dufault was sprung from the box, Reese was whistled for roughing, and Harvard couldn’t manage the kill for another two minutes. Daigneau never even reacted to Michael Genzy shot from the blue line that put Clarkson...
...realized that Harvard is not that fun, and it is not that intellectually stimulating, but amidst these broken dreams lay the shattered remains of a test tube, and out of this test tube there sprung forth a Humanzee [2] who knew how to have a sick time in a variety of ostensibly depressing situations...
...Raymond W. Keller ’08, a dancer in the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) and the Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble (HCDE), also mentioned the floors of the new center.“One of the big advantages of the new space is that the floors are sprung so they’re a lot easier on dancers’ knees,” he says. “It’s like the difference between jumping on a wood floor and on a concrete floor.”“I really like the dressing rooms...
...good reason to be excited for this project. I was dusting off my liquid sword, getting ready to guillotine heads once more. RZA wails, “Strong as the base of a mountain, there’s no countin’, how many MC’s have sprung from our fountain!” in his best verse since his paranoid rant on “4th Chamber” ten years ago. MF Doom shows up, demolishes the mic, and promptly leaves. What could beat a whole album of such hip-hop transcendence? But after hearing...