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...blame HUDS for trying, but what do such notices actually achieve? Tips like using a fresh plate for seconds do not seem particularly effective in a packed dining hall like Quincy’s. Anyone who has lunched there knows the basic crowd dynamic: Right after noon and 1 p.m. classes, the place is more like a battle scene out of “Gladiator” than a serving station. Then, in the middle of each hour, with no classes disgorging hungry, recently sleeping students, it quietly recovers while the tables strain under full capacity, random students brushing shoulders...
...turns to a band that made records under its own name for just eight years, at the bright high noon of rock 'n' roll, and broke up nearly four decades ago. Another anomaly: only in their earliest gestation, playing in Germany and in Liverpool's Cavern Club with Pete Best as their drummer, were the Beatles truly a Rock Band. For 40 years and more, that term has been applicable to the Rolling Stones and their spawn, whose songs are easily reproducible in their indefatigable concert tours and whose appeal is as much theatrical as musical. Truth is, the Beatles...
...necessity can make history obsolete. As proof, the Obama Administration has launched a full-court press to win Shelby's support for its financial-reform proposals, which the President will push Sept. 14 in a noon speech at Federal Hall on New York City's Wall Street. "We are in almost daily contact with [Shelby's] staff and have been going over the proposal with them literally line by line," says a senior Treasury department official. Shelby and the Senate Banking chair, Democrat Chris Dodd, have also been working together closely. "[Shelby's] folks are deeply engaged and we share...
...hunger. I’m not referring to genuine, involuntary starvation—a real concern in many parts of the world—but rather something along the lines of the pre-Sunday brunch munchies, when an unpleasantly grumbling stomach signals anticipation for that bite of Veritaffles at noon...
Once word got around, outrage ensued. The first e-mail hit a Harvard open list around noon. Next, On Harvard Time picked it up. Then IvyGate. Then Gawker...