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...student group office space. According to Friedrich, the board’s first priorities will be to develop a system of getting input from the student body, which some criticize has been lacking thus far. The board will also be instrumental in planning events like the weekly Penthouse Coffee Bar Acoustic Nights, which launched last Thursday, Friedrich said. Mather House Undergraduate Council (UC) Representative Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 wrote in an e-mail that although the idea of an advisory board is “fantastic,” students should have had earlier input...
...fake eyelashes are a key part of this season's vamped-up look. Fashionable women are flocking to Shu Uemura, the Japanese cosmetics company known for its precision-made makeup brushes and a selection of falsies that range from natural to rainbow colored. Its over-the-top Tokyo Lash Bar collection includes ornate feather lashes, above and below, and lashes studded with crystals. For $350, a Shu Uemura lash stylist will provide the ultimate service to amplify your eyes: extensions. It takes two hours to apply an extension to each individual lash, but the technique leaves your lashes looking voluminous...
...sound monitors and cameras. To keep the inmates occupied, they offer crossword puzzles, bingo and Jeopardy competitions through flyers or through a closed-circuit TV channel. "The Muslims are obsessed with the games, they chatter endlessly about the possible answers," Rudolph wrote. The winners are rewarded with a candy bar or a picture of themselves. Being a Westerner puts Rudolph at an advantage in the trivia games, and his foreign neighbors depend on his help. "Moments after they post the questions on Monday morning, the yelling begins. 'Areek, what the answers? Who is President...
...alleged arrests. Last week Republicans started attacking the war novels Webb has written, suggesting the sexual scenes they depict are insulting to women and show that Webb is sexist. Democrats, meanwhile, have been questioning why Allen won't release records of his divorce or his application to the Virginia Bar, which they suggest (without citing any evidence) might reveal he was arrested in the 1970's for an assault. Allen aides say the accusations are baseless, and that the only trouble he had with the law at the time concerned unpaid parking tickets...
...places like Mississippi, one of 12 states that permanently bar at least some felons from voting, the reason typically involves the notion that people have displayed very bad judgment by committing a felony, by definition a serious crime. No argument there. But having done so, the thinking goes, they have also proven themselves unfit to make one of life's most important decisions: choosing the nation's leaders. As Roger Clegg, president of the conservative advocacy group Center for Equal Opportunity, neatly puts it, "If you aren't willing to follow the law, you can't claim the right...