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...Butterfly Effect” with two friends my junior year in high school, we accidentally went an hour early. So to kill time, we went to Petsmart to look at dogs, and ended up purchasing a male Siberian dwarf hamster we named Diva.Diva led a short but action-packed life as he was passed covertly from house to house. When I found one of his other owners feeding him a pencil (“Well he sleeps in wood shavings!”) I intervened and gained full custody. I ended up giving him to a friend with a little...
...Without these provisions, student group leaders feel that they are vulnerable to disciplinary action on the part of the administration. At the same time, the group leader pointed out, the costs for making such arrangements can be quite prohibitive...
Spring Greeney ’09, Henry M. Cowles ’08, a Crimson arts editor, and Jake C. Levine ’07, a Crimson photo editor, are former co-chairs of the Harvard Environmental Action Committee...
This time around, the county seems to have a better communication system in place. Action and reaction is quicker. Businesses have beefed up their outreach. U-Haul is offering free storage units for a month. Many hotels all across the county have cut their rates in half. One man called a radio station offering his apartment free of charge until the evacuees find other accommodations. A friend tells me one downtown Ethiopian restaurant offers free meals to evacuees, though not a lot of people have stopped by. And these aren't isolated incidents. The number of looting cases crossing police...
...testimonial may have been the one delivered by Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the Senate's most liberal members. She said she had feared that the war in Iraq left the National Guard so depleted that California would be unable to handle the disaster. But "the Governor's swift action" in pulling guard members away from a mission to patrol the border assured that sufficient boots were very quickly on the ground, the Senator allowed. It's not every day a Republican gets a shout-out from Boxer...