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...team that “after the game he’d smash everyone’s ankles with a crowbar” if they don’t win the very important upcoming match, “[He] even showed us the crowbar, and he took a swipe with it at one of the planks in the fence, the crowbar tore right into the wood and he said our bone would break apart just like that, in splinters, not a soul would be able to put them together again.” This violence is not just seen...
...instead there was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain walking through the still-moldering remains of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, taking a direct swipe at President Bush by declaring that "never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled." There he was in Kentucky coal country, visiting the weathered porch where Lyndon Johnson announced the "War on Poverty" in 1964. There he was in Alabama's Black Belt, where people live without sewer systems, dancing as elderly quilters serenaded him with spirituals. And before the broken windows...
...earlier this year he went after a new target: college campuses. Starting with a pilot program at New York City's Columbia University, RecycleBank is putting special kiosks in cafeterias and dorms. Each student gets a RecycleBank card and takes their recycling to the closest kiosk, where they swipe their card, weigh their recycling and claim their points. The campus model required a little tweaking on Gonen's part - the dorm kiosks, he notes, are prank-proof (you can douse them in beer, and they'll still work) - but it's been an early success at Columbia, where school officials...
...take umbrage with Gibbs' Dismissal of Valentine's Day. It is one of the yearly events that does not have to be commercial. I make heart-shaped cookies with a friend, and we send most of them to our children and grandchildren, who live across the country. Each swipe of frosting, each sprinkle of red sugar is an act of love. We tie the boxes with red bows and send them off. Not everything has to be expensive or come from a store. Saying "I love you" is easy - if somewhat caloric. Susan Cavenagh, Carlisle...
...cause, not because of budget cuts. The Harvard Islamic Society’s (HIS) Fast-a-thon on Feb. 28 urged students to “go hungry for change.” Nearly 1500 students registered, promising to fast from dawn till dusk and to forego swiping in. HUDS, playing hero, pledged to donate the marginal cost of each meal not eaten to Save the Children. “The main thing is not to swipe, but it’s also about experiencing a part of Islam most people don’t get exposed...