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...prop for the farce, of course, was an overrated bum named Sonny Liston. Somehow he had persuaded quite a few people that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year...
...casual glance around the bar will result in meeting the intense gazes of several individuals whose expressions seem to say "I am the one for you--at least for tonight." The ubiquitous plaid button-downs obstruct the only entertainment in the bar: a fuzzy giant-screen projection of "Jeopardy!" No one seems to care that the clues cannot be seen and Alex Trebek can barely be heard...
...Harvard students play video games? Avid players cite procrastination as their chief reason for continual play. Chris R. Stackich '01 claims, "We play whenever we have work due." Playing consecutive games is easy--the press of a button resets the game--and getting off the couch can be difficult, especially when all that beckons is schoolwork...
Although tarnished by scandal, the Kennedy name plays big here as do the hot-button issues of the day to the liberal activist community...
...parade of athletes, its own concert of bagpipers and Japanese drums. As the competition got under way, the Kazakoshi Park Arena--not unlike a high school gym--was filled with Japanese primary schoolchildren, old ladies blowing Piccolo Mini Cheer Horns and a crowd of Canadians crying, "Come on, button boy. Stop, baby, stop." Here was one place where an "in turn," as it happened, referred to "a rock filled with clockwise rotation," as opposed to, not a special prosecutor, but an "out turn." Nearby was a whole museum of curling--well, a couple of display cases, containing a signed brush...