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...First years endure backaches courtesy of Sanders Theatre’s wooden benches to snooze through Ec 10. Others slip through the cracks in worthy—but huge—classes such as Justice. Still others confuse remote, if interesting, subject matter for the foundational ideas they seek (ahem, Fairy Tales, ahem...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, ELEMENTARY | Title: Liberal Smarts | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...up” technique, Jack Kerouac’s “school of disembodied poetics,” Amiri Baraka’s “jazz aesthetics”—become the beats of the 21st century. And like Martha Stewart says, ahem, “that’s a good thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freestylin': DJ Spooky, a.k.a. Paul Miller, In His Own Words | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...first day they were here, they came up to my room to do the traditional Inspection of the Living Quarters. “It (ahem) always looks like this” I assured them when they inquired about the relative cleanliness. Before I had to spend too much time trying to defend this outrageous claim, my roommate Dave came home. He had that dazed computer-science-owns-my-soul look to him, but he was kind enough to sit down and chat with us for a while...

Author: By Andrew Golis, | Title: Busy, Boring People | 3/8/2005 | See Source »

...Steve N. Jacobs ’05 boasts the most massive bed on campus. He created a makeshift king-sized by stacking four abandoned university-issue mattresses over two bed frames two-by-two. As for whether the über-bed goes to, ahem, good use, Jacobs wryly replies: “Oh, definitely...

Author: By Diane M. Nguyen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beds That Aren’t Just For Sleeping | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...invisibly. Conventional wisdom is that tiny pits and gouges in the wall of a champagne flute serve as bubble-formation sites. But Liger-Belair found that the imperfections of an average wine glass are far too small for that purpose. Instead, what gives birth to the bubble is, ahem, dirt?dust particles on the glass, or cellulose strands from the dish towel used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

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