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...House. This weekend, Laura Bush hosted the second annual National Book Festival, which was an event devoted to encouraging reading and the love of literature. This book festival comes just a month after the First Lady’s latest writing symposium. A librarian and schoolteacher, Laura Bush has thrown her energy behind infusing the White House with some literary culture, and has held symposiums on Mark Twain, the Harlem Renaissance and writers in the American West—all of which drew literature experts and enthusiasts alike. Needless to say, the President attended as well...
...season. Saturday was no exception as the Crimson defensive backs combined for two dropped interceptions and four pass interference penalties and gave up a slew of third-and-long conversions that kept Big Red drives moving. They also gave up three touchdown passes, two of which were jump balls thrown to the smallest receiver on the field (Cornell senior Keith Ferguson, who checks...
...former high school quarterback has thrown, caught, run for and returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the first four games of the season, drawing comparisons to Pittsburgh quarterback Kordell Stewart for his versatility...
...idea of getting together to dress up like the poor and disadvantaged for fun isn’t limited to this campus: so-called “white trash” parties are now thrown on campuses around the country. Attendees have been known to black out their teeth, wear shirts with beer and hunting slogans or make pointed jokes about incest...
...attack in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies are waging a guerrilla campaign in the south and east of the country, with rocket attacks on U.S. bases becoming an almost daily affair. And in the Philippines last Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed by a nail bomb thrown from a motorcycle in an attack blamed on the radical Islamist Abu Sayyaf group, whose operations have been the focus of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts there...