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Because the depot must first inform the superintendents before they can inform students of package arrival via e-mail (in every house except Lowell, which uses mailbox slips), there is typically a delay of at least half a day. Students who track their package through the carrier directly, however, do not always get the correct information regarding the arrival date. As a result, the package depots sometimes entertain the same student visitors multiple times...
According to fellow Sox fan and Newton South grad Matthew L. Ranen ’89, he and Robbins immediately left the room following the Buckner muff without saying a word to anyone else, or pretty much to each other, except for a couple of swear words now and again...
...joke. "Now everyone does shtick, so you see this wiseguy attitude. They're giving you their philosophy through humor," says Mankoff. In a 2002 cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, who wrote for Seinfeld, a wife exiting a movie theater says to her husband, "I liked it except for you." Says Mankoff: "It's a Seinfeld line. That person realizes she is funny." Jokes today are also less visual and far more newsy than they were 40 years ago, when cartoonists could not expect news events to enter the popular consciousness quickly...
They called her a dog and a donkey. "This year, there's no God except us," Abdulkarim says they told her. "We are your god now." When they were finished, one of the men drew his knife and slashed deep across Abdulkarim's left thigh, a few inches above her knee. The scar would mark her as a slave, they told her, or brand her like one of their camels. By nightfall, says Abdulkarim, more than 100 women in the town of Ablieh had been raped and dozens of people killed, including two of her sons, four...
...then they collapsed because, at their core, the Expos were overachievers. Whenever they won, except for 1994, they always overachieved, because their ownership never had the means or incentive to compete—especially in 2003 when they were owned by Major League Baseball and forced to play 18 “home” games in Puerto Rico...