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Students say they intend to focus their efforts in the summer and throughout the fall on mitigating the inconveniences of construction, including pressuring the College to install thicker windows in Leverett’s G-tower and delay the start time of construction until 9 a.m. They may also seek financial compensation that would go toward keeping House libraries open...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Bristle Over New Construction | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

BENEFITS Strength training and other strenuous exercises tear down muscle fiber. During periods of rest, muscles repair and rebuild themselves, getting thicker and stronger. Exercise enables the heart to pump with greater ease during times of rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Head to Toe | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...family ties thicker than political ones? Not in Illinois when a Governor nearing a re-election campaign is pitted against a street-smart ward politico who happens to be his father-in-law. The simmering feud between Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife's father, Chicago alderman Dick Mell, reached a boiling point last week. In a press conference, the Governor lashed out at his in-law amid reports that a grand jury is investigating allegations by Mell that Blagojevich's administration traded jobs for campaign contributions. Blagojevich denied the charges and asserted that the investigation was started only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Feud in Chicago | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

...pulling his pants and boxers off to spank him. Then they divide and conquer, grinding on his friends, who snag chance caresses as they slide bills in the back of centimeter-wide thongs. In the end, the women are covered in wads of bills; the better the performance, the thicker the wad. A woman who can make her customers believe her act is generously rewarded at the end of the night...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Her Skin Doesn’t Show | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...Montgomery Ward in 1872 created a revolution in marketing: the mail-order catalog. Known as the great wish book, Ward's catalog provided the mostly rural U.S. population with everything a family needed, from swaddling clothes and calico to barbed wire and tombstones. Over the years, the catalog grew thicker and slicker. Among the fashion models who graced its pages were Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward and Suzy Parker. But competition from more specialized retailers gradually eroded the selling power of the book. Last week Montgomery Ward President Bernard Brennan announced that the last catalog will be mailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Aug. 12, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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