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Believing she needs the confidence of an experienced woman to triumph in her upcoming final round of consulting interviews, Diana L. Colbert ’04 has resolved to lose her virginity before she loses out on her dream job. In a terse e-mail, Colbert offered her virginity in a winner-takes-all, first-come-first-served style format to any former boyfriend or male acquaintance who can provide his own transportation to the Ramada Inn at Laguardia Airport, where she’ll be staying from the 10th to the 14th. So far there has been only...
Edmund Burke once said, “all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Tonight I will be protesting this event at 7 p.m. in Science Center A. I hope you join...
...rest of the world. The image-making may backfire for the White House because it broke one of its own cardinal rules. "When you're in the end zone act like you've been there," say senior officials of the confident repose they strike after any White House triumph. But after Saddam's statue fell, says one administration official picking up on the football analogy, the Bush team staged "an end zone dance. The problem is that they spiked the ball on the ten before they crossed the goal line." In the end, no matter how good the celebration...
Johnson’s most important triumph, according to Caro, was his passage of “the first civil rights bill in 82 years…which broke a twenty year dam in the Senate against liberal legislation...
...next morning, the acrid smell of explosives had wafted to the nearest village, and someone tipped off the cops that looters might be at work. The following night police staked out the tomb. Three raiders were caught; two got away. State press reports hailed the arrests as a triumph, but instead of filling in the hole and posting a guard, the underfunded local cultural-relics bureau simply placed wooden planks across the hole and tossed in some dirt. Before long, other gangs pilfered at least 200 treasures, mostly ceramic statues, from the site. Among the loveliest of these pieces...