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...believe the students take anything from the mailrooms,” he says. He suspects address confusion is the true culprit. Since Eliot House is on Dunster Street, packages are sometimes accidentally delivered to Dunster House—in fact, one Eliot resident’s thousand-dollar wedding ring was once shipped to the wrong dormitory. But what’s a thesis-writing, movie-craving student to do? The only option seems to be curling up with a DVD from Lamont’s extensive selection (want to watch “Ben-Hur” again?) until...
...poised and confident, that he’s able to perform under any circumstance. He’s just a winner, and has some intangible qualities that you can’t teach.” “There’s anywhere from 15 to 20 thousand fans there,” O’Connor said of the tournament atmosphere. “To see all the effort put into the season culminate in that one tournament is truly amazing. It’s easy enough to be swept away by all the emotions and nerves...
...scene was like the Iranian answer to March Madness. At Amir Kabir University of Technology in Tehran this past December, a crowd of several thousand packed the school's auditorium. On one side were hundreds of members of the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary force controlled by Iranian hard-liners, who had been bused in to cheer their most prominent alumnus, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They waved placards and roared as Ahmadinejad boasted about Iran's growing power and dared the country's enemies to challenge it. But in the back of the room, a group of 50 activists burned...
...Because the chances of success are infinitesimally small - even the one in a thousand petitioners who succeeds in getting some sort of response from the authorities in Beijing usually finds that the resulting judgment is simply ignored back home in the provinces - petitioners often travel to the capital during the NPC meeting in the hope of winning support from a delegate. But the last thing that state security officials want to see is thousands of petitioners ruining their carefully choreographed event. Having in many cases endured beating and imprisonment by provincial security officials, the thousands congregating in the area around...
...Orleans neighborhood. A signed sketch by Picasso was placed eye-catchingly near the front door. He had two, possibly three, Mercedes-Benz, a $300,000 condo in Colorado and a $345,000 house in Florida. He also had more than $3 million in an investment fund and several hundred thousand dollars in a trust fund for his daughter. Department insiders say Gerber had a mistress with whom he frequently traveled to exotic places...