Word: turning
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...walk, despite being a freshman or, even grosser, a Dunster resident, and a handsome gentleman in a lifeguard chair re-stolen from the MAC blows a whistle, mocks you on a megaphone, and leads two hundred people hand-picked by the gods in booing you, deal with it. Turn around and go to Mather. Don’t try coming in the back, either. I used to sneak into dining halls too, then...
...Changing the rules is a risky proposition. Democrats hold 57, soon to be 58, seats in the Senate, so changing filibuster procedures may turn out to be unnecessary until at least 2010, when the deck will be reshuffled again. Yet, if current trends continue, a point may arrive when some type of adjustment in the rules should at least be threatened, perhaps not by the administration or party leadership, but at least by individual Democratic senators...
...night’s chilly River Run, I remained motionless and stared blankly at two over-eager gentlemen, clad in Pforzheimer gear. I was unable to take the envelope. They gently placed the death notice in my blockmate’s outstretched hand and assured us that everything would turn out well as the door closed. I whipped an already-beat Top-Sider at my poster-clad Pennypacker wall. After a year of scabies, long walks to Annenberg, and gazing at a parking-lot vista from my common room window, the prospect of river views and convenient access...
...year. With fantastically insulated walls and prime views of the courtyard on one side and the Charles River on the other, the suite’s long hallways host everything from dance parties to beer bottle bowling. Switzerland native Alexandre N. Maurice ’09 says that he turned the giant common room this year into a “European discotheque, equipped with an excellent sound system whose speakers have been known to blow out on occasion.”Pforzheimer: The Bell TowerRight beneath Pfoho’s belltower sits this four-bedroom suite. It technically...
...destroy it, the population must actively turn against subversive elements within it, and either fight or flush them out in the same way that Sunni tribal sheiks in Anbar switched sides and allied with the Americans against al-Qaeda in their province, a movement known as the Sahwa. That hasn't happened yet, General Brown says, because Mosul's diverse makeup has proved difficult to foster such a movement. The Anbar Sahwa fell into line behind tribal sheiks, whose word is law, but Nineveh is not exclusively a tribal society...