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Sitting in Dunster House on a recent evening, “Ian” is fidgety, shaking his legs and darting his fingers after a pen on a nearby desk before picking it up to twirl it into a plastic blur. He looks like a nervous student—not the stony-limbed picture of calm so familiar from televised poker tournaments. And yet Ian, who works with a student group at Harvard and requested that his real name not be used for this piece, is very much a poker player—a professional online, who says...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...says she was an overweight graduate student who spent most of her time tied to a computer at a desk before rediscovering the hula hoop at a music-and-arts festival in Los Angeles. "When I got my hoop, I was not a natural," says Zamor, who can now twirl a hoop on virtually every body part, "but I kept practicing and realized that it was something that can be self-taught, even for people who have never hooped in their lives." What's more, says Zamor, hooping cut her stress levels, helped her drop three pant sizes and introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hula Hoops: From Child's Play to Real Exercise | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...specializes in “gamete production.” Oh really, Cassandra? We’ve mastered not only gamete production, but distribution and cleanup…and for some reason, no one’s rushing to put our name in FM. Women in sciences, eh? [twirl moustache here].Gonzalo Giribet: The all-star of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. He made a name for himself studying obese women and their oversized tweety bird t-shirts, though he has yet to replicate his results outside of a Six Flags Theme Park. Keep on rollin’, Gonzalo...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...When I twirl, it floats,” Roger J. Merado ’10 said with an incredulous look as ze twirled hir goddess-like skirt...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life's a Drag | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Real Americans are ready to move past these pasta and anti-pasta politics. Remember our great Italian-American heroes: Giorgio Washingtino, Silvio Berlusconi, Giovanni Adamsi, and Alexandro Hamiltini. If they were on our campus today, they would twirl their large handlebar mustaches and say, “Send your votes for Harvard’s new mascot, along with pictures of your ‘figure,’ to prestigeandmobility@gmail.com...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: Macaroni Mascots | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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