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...Bible, and he wanted me to be so prepared. Homeschooled from kindergarten until third grade, I became thoroughly acquainted with many of the characters and stories in the Bible. My brothers and I even invented “Bible 20 Questions” to drill and try to stump each other...

Author: By Paul C. Schultz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Catholicism at Harvard | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...believe the first master found an elf when he cut down a tree—there was a little elf hiding there in the stump,” Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 says of the so-called House elves, students and recent graduates who help with open houses, teas and other events. Though most Houses hire such assistants, only Quincy has given them such a distinctive nickname. And no one knows exactly...

Author: By A.a. Showalter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elf Help | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

...represents the recent past--the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Macaroni and Cheese | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...unaware of the hostile tension of the Harvard/Cambridge standoff until I started a temporary dog-walking service over Winter Break. While pausing to allow various crazy animals to mark every stump and poll, I had time to read the multiple signs on every Riverside telephone poll announcing town meetings to denounce Harvard development in Cambridge. From the view on the street, Cambridge hates...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Cambridge Needs a Giant Lava Lamp | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...represents the recent past - the high-tech, welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Macaroni and Cheese | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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