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...Last Monday, Yale announced that all tailgates will have to end before the start of the third quarter and that all drinking games and related paraphernalia will be banned. Smith said that in the past, without restrictions in place, parties held the night before the Game have tended to swell to uncontrollable size. Smith recalled “massive, roving parties that sort of move from college to college and leave a trail of destruction and damage and chaos in [their] wake,” and attributed this unruliness only partially to drunkenness. “Part...
...just the master--has the option of a walk-in closet. "The closet has typically been a forgotten space," says Michael Carson, founder of the National Closets Group, a trade organization. Now the closet is where the money is. The membership of Carson's group has seen total revenues swell from $15 million in 1999 to $100 million last year...
...opportunity to serve my country. I just have to sign up for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), and the letter reminds me in big, bold letters: “What’s the catch? There is none!” Why, that’s swell...
...capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice ... [The film's] gem?tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big, warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every...
...traced to Professor Sandel’s own mercurial decision making. At the beginning of 2003’s Justice class, rumors swirled that this would be Sandel’s last turn at the podium, and the same thing is happening this year. Rumors like these swell class numbers to Cher Farewell Tour heights. Sandel should be firm about his future plans to teach the course, so that students can plan their class schedules logically. Ideally, the course would be taught every year, without fail. To allow for this, Sandel could recruit another lecturer to teach the course when...