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...childhood: building character.All around the river houses, stories of the success of Harvard’s “Character-Building Initiative” (CBI) circulate: Girls received the gift of snowfall in their Winthrop room; blockmates spent an afternoon bailing water out of their Kirkland House second-story window after their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room of a five-story...
...Harlem streets. So this mixtape derives its drama both from the claim that a Brooklyn rapper could never do justice to the realities of the Harlem streets and the implication that Jones can. Yet what we find in the tracks of this mixtape is not a window into the world of an American gangster from Harlem but a rehashing of trite gangsta-isms that anyone with a copy of the film “Boyz n the Hood” could have easily conjured. Each track vaguely covers all of the following topics: selling crack, making money, snorting coke, getting...
...Officers dispatched to Hurlbut Hall to a report that an individual was observed climbing through a window. Officers arrived and spoke to the individual who stated that they were using a room in the building for the weekend and was locked out. The individual then stated that the room is not theirs and the individual who currently resides in it was not home. Officers observed that the screens and the windows had been opened. Officers secured the windows...
...Pizza-A-Go-Go. I hadn’t seen Shakespeare in Love (rated R!) in theaters because I was under 17, so she rented it from Blockbuster and we munched on stone-fired dough while watching Joseph Fiennes woo the pre-pregnancy Gwyneth Paltrow, climbing up to her window and unraveling her strange linen corset. The next morning, my mom and I slept in until 10:00 a.m. After we had both meandered down to the kitchen, we decided that it would be a shame to let what was left of the pizza to go to waste. We located...
German tourist Jurgen Kohl was window shopping in Mexico's trendy Zona Rosa district last Friday afternoon when he saw a flash of brilliant light followed by a thundering bang and the sound of shattering glass. Minutes later, ambulances and police rushed into the street to find three blood-soaked people crying for help and the remains of a crude plastic explosives device. One of the injured died on the way to hospital. "Being in Mexico, I first thought it was an earthquake or something," Kohl said, visibly shaken from the blast. "I had no idea that bombs went...