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...Lampoon hosted the event with the former World Wrestling Entertainment star in order "to make amends and celebrate our renewed friendship" (according to invitations left in the House), which was likely in reference to the distribution of 9/11-themed "Lever Forget" t-shirts on Housing...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beers, Burgers, and Stone Cold Steve Austin at the Lampoon | 3/28/2010 | See Source »

...questions about Sikes' account. Michels said the car's accelerator pedal was found to work normally, as was the pushbutton power switch, which "shut the vehicle off when depressed for three seconds, as the 911 operator advised Mr. Sikes to do." Michels also said the car's gear-shift lever worked properly under testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Counterattack: Can It Recover? | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

...Lampoon's deception took a grossly insensitive turn with the worst part of the prank: the freshmen who were "placed" in Leverett were gifted with T-shirts featuring an image of the Leverett towers above the phrase "Lever Forget"—drawing an all-too-unsubtle parallel between the gray towers and the World Trade Center...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon Hoaxes Freshmen With 9/11-Themed T-Shirts | 3/13/2010 | See Source »

...Jundallah may have served, for a time, as a tool of strategic depth for Islamabad, much in the same way it has allowed the anti-Indian terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban to exist in safe havens in Pakistan. "Rigi was a lever with which to have some leverage with Iran, a check Pakistan could cash in," says Bokhari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Arrest of an Extremist Foe: Did Pakistan Help? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally got around to acknowledging what a lot of people have known since Iran's contested election last June - there's been a military takeover in that country, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) grabbing every important lever of power. As Clinton put it during a televised town-hall meeting, "The Supreme Leader, the President [and] the parliament is being supplanted, and Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Sanctions Won't Beat Iran's Revolutionary Guards | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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