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Over Easter weekend the team sailed in two one-day regattas at homeā€”the Emily Wick Trophy on March 26 and, on the subsequent day, the Sloop Shrew Trophy...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Earns Top Ranking | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...team struggled, finishing eighth of nine teams in the Emily Wick and seventh of seven in the Sloop Shrew...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Earns Top Ranking | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...face in late-night TV speaks with a Scottish brogue. CRAIG FERGUSON, best known to American audiences as The Drew Carey Show's insufferable boss Mr. Wick, takes the reins of CBS's Late Late Show in January, which another Craig--Kilborn in this case--dropped over the summer. (Easier to remember the name of the guy behind the desk, that way.) Ferguson won a bake-off with three other funny guys, much to his surprise. "I thought, There's no way they're going to let a Scottish guy do this show," he says. (Has he never seen Shrek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Awake | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...though the briskness of the trade in antique opium pipes suggests those laws aren't being rigidly enforced. Opium lamps, however, are far more likely to clear customs. They are smaller than oil lamps used for lighting, and an opium lamp never has a mechanical wheel to advance the wick?this was done by hand with a pair of tweezers. It is unusual to find an opium lamp that has its original glass funnel intact. Most have been fitted with replacements made from tea glasses or even liquor bottles. If an opium lamp sports a glass funnel that looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intoxicating Antiques | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...writes: ?This is a movie that spirals down and down until it passes the point of no return. And then it doesn?t. (The) characters, traumatized by their very existence, run around sweating and crying out their pain, looking for all the world like candles melting down to a wick of pure hurt and hatred.? The receptive moviegoer goes into meltdown too - from feeling appalled to feeling empathy. And that second, human emotion is the scariest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

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