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Soon after the purchase, Chris had a group of friends over. They woke up some of the neighbors, and the roommates feared that the secret...
...that real life provided so many classic frat-boy-comedy moments? "By the end of the week I felt my teeth eroding from the margarita mix," says Roxanne, a sophomore at Texas Tech and one of the twins. "There was never a sober moment. We woke up with margaritas." Alcohol, logic dictates, has the same effect on films as bad writing: it turns young people into cliches. Not only do the 16 people sharing the phat Mexican hotel suite make out indiscriminately, curse and say stupid things, but they also indirectly deliver the requisite moral lesson of a teen comedy...
...wailing at Mohamed Sakran Cemetery woke up more than the dead. In a walled section of the sprawling facility outside Baghdad, families of Iraq's missing had come to solve mysteries buried by years of oppression. They shoveled and jabbed at low mounds of sandy earth, digging just three feet down before uncovering their worst fears: the remains of young men arrested - for as little as flocking to a religious rival of Saddam Hussein - and never heard from again...
After scoring just four runs in its previous four games, the Harvard baseball team’s bats finally woke up yesterday afternoon against Boston College at O’Donnell Field. Unfortunately for the Crimson, BC exploded for a whopping 24 runs, in a 24-6 blowout...
...thus far would be a teenager assigned to the rear supply lines? Jessica Lynch, the person and the story, defies so many wartime stereotypes that she has forced us to create a new one: the scrappy, indomitable, steely soldier chick. Liberal feminists I know who reflexively opposed this war woke up changed women the morning that Lynch's exploits were described in the Washington Post. "I hope she blew them all away," one told me, her surging sense of pride and solidarity trumping her lifelong abhorrence of firearms. (So much for the M-16 as phallic symbol.) The other hero...