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That year, protestors would occasionally stage “pop and stops??—activities to prove that they were well-organized enough to seize control of a major administrative building if necessary. Massive groups of students would instantly materialize and pile into the offices of Massachusetts Hall, where they handed the secretaries flowers and mysteriously said, “We’ll be back later,” before quickly dissipating...
Countering a charge that upper-class tax increases would hurt the economy, Joe Biden launched like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops??the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more...
...composer for “Ragtime.” From the Currier House musical “Peanut Butter and Juliet”—a transposition of Shakespeare’s play into the American South with “two warring families at opposing truck stops??—to “The Life and Many Deaths of Mister Plumb,” Mitnick’s work is saturated with his distinctive style. In “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” the antagonism between the peanut butter sandwich...
...last weekend’s ties with Brown and Yale. During her absence, freshman Brittany Martin minded net for the Crimson, amassing 76 saves while surrendering just one goal.Last night, Boe only had 16 saves—paltry compared to Terriers netminder Allyse Wilcox’s 39 stops??but she was solid enough to earn the victory for Harvard.“I thought Ali did her job,” Stone said.FIRST SHIFTThe night’s other first-round Beanpot game also required an extra frame to settle, with Boston College winning by a tally...
Around the corner she suddenly stops??at a room into which she is welcomed with extended arms and excited shouts. Room 418, the Presidential Suite, has been transformed into the grown-up version of a little girl’s dress-up party...