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Yale (5-10-2, 5-5-2) began the game’s scoring in the first period, jumping out to a 1-0 lead on a goal scored by sophomore forward Mike Klema and assisted by junior forwards Evan Wax and sophomore Ryan Steeves...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Stumbling Against Tigers, M. Hockey Rallies | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...Brit of love-ins and “Imagine.” But, qualified or not, I jumped in. We set out to develop a bigger, better magazine, with more and longer stories and a splashier design. We did paste-up back then by hand, with X-acto knives, waxed type and blue-gridded layout boards. We worked in what can only be described as a cave off the newspaper’s paste-up room. I remember cold, cracked, concrete walls, leaky pipes, and a damp vegetable odor that mingled with the pervasive smells of ink, hot wax...

Author: By The FM Ex-staff, | Title: Workin’ for the Mag | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...notion of solidarity by placing the students above the workers as their “saviors,” a role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would say, ‘isn’t this great, we have such a great future ahead of us if these students are the leaders of the future?...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Face of Student Activism | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...Every time we see something devastating, it brings back the sleepless nights, the nightmares, the whole dang ball of wax," says Paul Howell, who lost his 28-year-old daughter Karan Shepherd in the bombing. Howell, like Doris Jones, 53, knew immediately after the recent attacks that he would go to New York City to help. Both of them made the trip, sponsored by the Red Cross. Three times a day, they escorted grieving family members on tours of ground zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grief Lessons | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...collection of old-time housework manuals and consulted innumerable experts, from fire fighters to microbiologists. Eight years later, she had more than 800 pages that are the final word on how to get out any stain, how to sweep a floor (to the center) and how to remove candle wax (apply ice until the wax crumbles). After reading her book, you will throw out your old sponges, always have white vinegar handy and become slightly paranoid about mold and dust mites. Her reigning philosophy is that the right way of doing something is almost always the fastest. Also, you should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Economist: Clean Queen | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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