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Since October, the bearded man in a white robe has wandered around this depressed coal region in Pennsylvania, where people tell stories about him. Children seem to believe he can walk in a snowstorm without getting wet and that his robe never gets dirty. One man phoned a local newspaper to say the visitor had put his palms on the hood of the man's car and fixed a problem that would have been too expensive for him to repair. The bearded man smiles at these stories and says he mostly tries to discourage them. Mostly. "There have been some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appalachian Apostle | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...sneaking suspicion that I would be the only girl in the Fleet Center who blow-dried her hair before she went to see steroid-filled men pretend to mortally wound one another wearing uni-suits at WWF's Smackdown!. I even contemplated leaving it wet, but my vanity, and the idea that one of these wrestlers might be cute, got the better of me. So I blow-dried my hair, put on the most non-descript outfit I could think of, and headed to the Fleet Center armed with my mace and two days of beginner Tae Bo videos...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the WWF Spectacular Theater or Total Trash? A WWF Newbie's Account | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...Both words, after all, are slurs, oddly similar in that they are formed by referring to a part of the body (neck or back) and adding a short, morally neutral word (red or wet) to form an insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fish Market of Ideas | 2/10/2000 | See Source »

...drier, you get an e-mail from your TF reminding you about that problem set you forgot to turn in last Friday. Dinner comes next and only later that evening do you remember your long-neglected laundry, returning to find that some equally courteous person has dumped your wet clothes on that puddle of goo--what a jerk, couldn't he tell that it wasn't water?--and your dried clothes have returned to the dust-bunny lair from whence they came...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, | Title: Editorial Notebook: The Saturday Morning Ordeal | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

...real pain of the laundry process college-style could really be alleviated if people would do each other a simple favor--a $1 courtesy or a 10-minute favor every now and then. Imagine if after being waylaid in a conversation or lunch, you came down to find your wet clothes already happily tumbling in the drier. How cool would it be if after forgetting to get your clothes out of the drier in time to cut wrinkles, you got down to find your laundry neatly folded on a clean surface, not lying amongst swaths of lint and old drier...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, | Title: Editorial Notebook: The Saturday Morning Ordeal | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

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