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Alums also relived their glory days by participating in "steps," a time-honored Lampoon party tradition in which party-goers in various degrees of drunkenness stand on the steps outside of the Castle and sing until inclement weather, boredom or the police force them back inside...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez and Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Lampoon Celebrates 125th Anniversary | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...what cost? The next one's got something to do with food, and sacrifice. Emphasis on Rodger. Suddenly I feel the boredom coming on again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Survivor: The Queen Is Dead. Long Live the Queen. | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

...insult to boredom, CBS gave fans a show that did very little to tide them over until NCAA basketball vacates Thursday nights next week. In staying faithful to the arc of the show thus far, tribal council by tribal council, CBS missed a chance to give close readers a tasty treat: More unseen footage of the eight people actually still competing for the million bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrong Time to Pull a Bait-and-Switch | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...sure, passengers may be emotionally aroused well before they enter the cabin - from delays, boredom, jetlag or saying farewell to loved ones. Also, by some estimates, as many as one in five passengers has a fear of flying. And a few experts say that airlines, whose advertisements depict air travel as a relaxed, soothing realm of smiling passengers and subservient flight attendants, may themselves be partially to blame for raising travelers' expectations. It's a claim airlines flatly dismiss. "Ludicrous," says Ben Hall, a spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways. "We have to look at how many cases of air rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Rage | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...brother in the side of the head. I froze with my mouth open. Pat held his hand to the side of his head. We all just stood there for a moment, then they moved away. It was a perfect Columbus moment, the kind combat troops describe - long days of boredom punctuated by a quick flash of terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

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