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...About 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, I just woke up [sick],” said Forrester H. Cole ’02, a Dunster House resident. Cole said he thought his Monday night dinner of pork chops and rice could be responsible...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dunster, Mather Students Suffer Stomach Illness | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

Peng seems to have made all the right moves. Two nights after her final-round interview with Goldman Sachs she received a late-night phone call—not of the obscene kind. Her roommate woke her with the unexpected news that someone from Goldman was calling. “I was sleepy and a little dazed and confused,” Peng laughs. “So I didn’t sound that excited on the phone. But after I got off I realized what was going on.” Peng didn’t accept...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pamela F. Peng | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

...special forces had a busy night on Jan. 24. A mile away, they attacked a second Uruzgan compound, which had been seized by rogue warlord Mohammed Yousif - a challenger for the title of district chief. At 2am helicopters landed nearby and soldiers stormed his perimeter. "A great noise woke me up," says the steely Yousif, "and when I got out of my room I could see Americans." He claims he ordered his men not to open fire, but "when I knew they were going to kill us and bombard, I escaped." Yousif and a small coterie of aides evaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the U.S. Killed the Wrong Afghans | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

...after Thanksgiving, Mike woke up and told E.J. he couldn't face going to work. He had often scoffed with his co-workers about the emotional help the department had been offering, but on this day he scheduled an appointment with a counselor to request a medical leave. His best friend Rob drove him to the session. Mike answered the counselor's questions--Are you having trouble eating? No. Sleeping? Sometimes--but he didn't volunteer any information. Still, he left feeling a little lighter and carrying explicit instructions to take a vacation with his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory In The Glare | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Astaire, instead of handing it Dick Powell for the 1937 "On the Avenue"? Anyway, the song was a hit, with four top-12 versions (including Billie Holiday?s). It cuddled up and went to sleep for a dozen years; and then, when Les Brown revived the tune, it woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Christmas Feeling: Irving America | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

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