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...that we’re back, the mythical Senior Bar season (Senior Bar every Sunday through Thursday!) is upon us. This is for Harvard students what one of those chocolate Advent calendars is for a four-year-old child. Every day, you get to open up a new window and have a little piece of chocolate, which is vaguely satisfying but mostly it just tickles your pickle for more chocolate. Sometimes you just lose it and eat like 5 pieces of chocolate at once, and then get so blackout that you have to skip a few days...
...brother here in the fall, though he’s a bit apprehensive. “He spent his last year bungee jumping, sky-diving, and white-water rafting—and being stuck in a lecture for an hour may make him want to jump out a window,” the elder Melvoin says. The younger Melvoin, however, is anxious to get back to the daily grind. “I feel like a bum after awhile, so I’m ready to start working,” he says...
...wasn’t just the major stories—like local murders or vote tampering—that caught the attention of the young crew. “Talking to people about their ordinary lives, you got this window into how hard it was, and how incredibly brave so many people were,” says Gale...
...commemorate Card's five-plus years in the West Wing, the second longest any Chief of Staff has served. The meal for the two-hour flight from Des Moines was chicken Marsala and tomato cucumber salad. The Air Force One crew presented Card with a jacket and a window from the plane inscribed with his name as an expression of gratitude. Card, a frequent guest at Camp David and a member of the "Hundred Degree Club" of hot-weather runners at Bush's ranch, talked about what a privilege it was to work in the White House. He walked around...
...tired-out world of stand-up comedy: a real original. A hit at the 2005 Aspen Comedy Festival, she doesn't do traditional monologues, yet her parodies and character pieces are not (like a lot of Whoopi clones) so much about showing off her performing virtuosity as opening a window into her alienated soul. Giving an account in court of a near rape, she describes being followed down a street by a man, panicking when she realizes the only self-defense she knows is origami, then asking the guy out dancing. At the end of her new show...