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...don’t have a giant cloth tower, but we wouldn’t want that kind of scar on Winthrop,” said Frank A. Myslicki ’12, a member of Winthrop HoCo, which served burgers and beer.At Eliot’s tailgate, things were slightly more formal...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tailgate Rages Forth At Yale | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...complaints had all but vanished, however, by 1945, when V-J day prompted the most lavish ticker-tape parade in history. Revelers celebrating the Allied victory over Japan filled the air with cloth, feathers, hat trimmings, paper and confetti. On Aug. 14, 1945, 3,000 street sweepers worked through the night to clean it up, only to have their efforts undone when the merriment continued the next morning. All told, merrymakers flung 5,438 tons of material on New York City's streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticker-Tape Parades | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...read memoirs? I have read some. I don't read a lot of memoirs. I'm very narrow in all my interests. I am cut from the same cloth as my older, Aspergian brother and probably Aspergian father. If I could, I would eat the same exact thing every day. It would be just protein bars and nothing else, no deviation ever. (See pictures of crazy Christmas traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...have about 20 matching strings. "With this method we see the way authors use and reuse the same phrases and metaphors, like chunks of fabric in a weave," says Vickers. "If you have enough of them, you can identify one fabric as Scottish tweed and another as plain gray cloth." (No insult intended to Kyd.) (See the top 10 imposters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...some ways. I'm just going to talk through my hat because I have no actual information for you, but maybe it's our relative lack of deep history that might curse us to this quest. We're a slightly amnesiac country. We were invented out of whole cloth fairly recently, and we're very dedicated to not looking at the past and very pointed to the future. America is kind of a science fiction novel in a way. Very weak on character and backstory, but very strong in concept and dynamism and cool ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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