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...Evans ’03 asked the guy next to her in Lit and Arts section as she checked her syllabus against her Filofax. “I totally thought I had another week in there.” Evans, who has a midterm, a paper and a bikini wax scheduled in the first week of March, spent the rest of section trying to remember that if 30 days has September, how many fucking days February...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

This week seniors have begun to celebrate the infamous “last 100 days” of their Harvard careers. For the rest of the school year, every night there will be an event at a bar for seniors to gather, reminisce about meals in Annenberg, and wax nostalgic about all of the good-ol’ college days. Even more so, the events serve as a last-ditch attempt to get the proverbial “true college experience,” to go out with a bang, remembering college as an exuberant, debauchery-filled romp that somehow...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, ROBERT J. FENSTER | Title: Remembrance of the Present | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...stage and left their fans screaming for more. The quintet soon came back for their encore. After playing “Buddy Holly,” one of their most famous singles from their first album, they ended the show with a grand finale of “Surf Wax America.” Cuomo and Shriner left their guitar and bass in front of the amps in a wash of feedback as the band departed, this time for good. The crowd, on the other hand, was left breathlessly staring at the empty stage, mesmerised by the superb quality...

Author: By William F. Conners, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Geeks Rock The House | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...wasn't the Superglue that held his boot together after a nasty tumble on the ski jump. It wasn't the bloody face that resulted from that fall, nor the altitude, nor the wax on his cross country skis. Todd Lodwick, 25, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., doesn't blame anything or anyone for his seventh-place finish in Sunday's Nordic combined event. Actually, he's quite happy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Gets Seventh in Nordic Combined. And That's a Good Thing | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...always figured he was average. But having some authority put a number on it is a whole different ball of wax. Besides, since when was the 40th percentile average? That means 60 percent of kids who take this test do better than he did. For a while we started referring to him, when he wasn't around, as "Dumbo," or "the Brainiac." Our friends, whose kids got somewhere in the 80s, all assured us the test didn't mean a thing, except that he's not going to that fancy preschool. But once someone has come out and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom at Work: When Exams Test Parents | 1/29/2002 | See Source »

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