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...those who aren’t naturally lured to the Outing Club by an innate love of nature, the Outing Club’s largest obstacle seems to be its lack of advertising.“I think the people that know about it are excited about it. But not everybody knows what we do,” says Hedman. “Basically our job is to get people gear for almost free, and then go out and have fun. And there’s no catch.”He adds, “We basically are here...
...activity: Cheering for the Blue Barracudas on “Legends of the Hidden Temple” Sexiest physical trait: Ability to perform Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” entirely in sign language. Also, lack of swine flu. Best part about Harvard: I now know at least two Armenians. They are a delightful people. Worst part about Harvard: June 5, 2009. Describe yourself in 3 words: Castable. Really castable. In 15 minutes you are: Sharing things on Google Reader. In 15 years you are: Sharing things on Google Reader…with my mind...
...know that episode of the HBO show “The Wire” where Avon Barksdale says to Marlo Stanfield, “It’s all in the game” to describe the complications and stresses inherent in being a kingpin in the Baltimore drug trade? If you have no idea what the crap I’m talking about, The Wire, aka the sweetest show ever, is about crime and policing in the age of post-industrial urban decay, and the characters traditionally say “all in the game” to describe...
...President recently told a remarkable story about his grandmother. In the last months of her life - she was dying of cancer - she broke her hip and received a hip replacement from Medicare. "I don't know how much that hip replacement cost," Obama told the New York Times, and he questioned whether giving people "a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model." This is the most sensitive health-care issue imaginable. But the question of whether the government can decide which health-care treatments are appropriate is central to whether an affordable universal system...
...cuts," he said. "The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set." Snowe recalls that when she proposed fiscally conservative "triggers" to limit Bush's tax cuts in case of deficits, she was attacked by fellow Republicans. "I don't know when willy-nilly tax cuts became the essence of who we are," she says. "To the average American who's struggling, we're in some other stratosphere. We're the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich." In the Bush era, the party routinely sided with corporate lobbyists - promoting...