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...that it resembled nothing so much as spaghetti Bolognese. The Lurp, a little sorry hooch in his belly, loosened up. ''Yeah, I saw Mr. Bob Hope. They came and got us in the bush. Said we were going to see Mr. Bob Hope. We thought we were the luckiest guys on earth. We got all cleaned up, went to Danang. Surfed for two days. Then they sent us out to set up an outer perimeter. I saw Mr. Bob Hope's ass come over in a chopper, and I saw Mr. Bob Hope's ass leave in a chopper. Yeah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURFING INTO THE MELANCHOLY PAST | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

From her comfortable five-room suite in Pforzheimer House, Ealy Ko ’08 considers herself one of the luckiest people at Harvard...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip and Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Prepares for $1 Billion Housing Renovation | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Despite his superstitions, John McCain likes to describe himself as "the luckiest man you will ever meet." Most of the time, he is speaking of the past - the fire he narrowly escaped on the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967 or the the five years of torture and confinement he survived in Hanoi. But that luck continues to this day. His victories Tuesday in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont sealed for him both the Republican nomination and one of the most remarkable runs in modern political history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Luck of John McCain | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...website The Knot for any Saturday in July is about 12,000, but for 7/7/07 the number tripled to 38,000. "It will be the biggest wedding day ever," says Carley Roney, editor in chief of The Knot. "Even more than the millennium." It certainly helps that the luckiest day of the century happens to fall on a Saturday, right after the Fourth of July. In fact, when Wal-Mart saw how popular the day was, it decided to host a contest where seven couples will win an all-expenses-paid wedding held in their closest Wal-Mart Super Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Popular Wedding Day Ever | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...offered an illustrative anecdote: “My sister went to a state school and the Rhodes wasn’t even an option for them. No one encouraged them to apply; no one was there to read essays. We’re the luckiest kids in the world. It’s not a perfect system, but I had a fellowships tutor who read draft after draft of my essay and had meal after meal with me to discuss my graduate plans, to discuss what this fellowship would mean if I got it, to discuss what I would...

Author: By Daniel P. Wenger | Title: The Rhodes and Harvard: Opportunity, Not Obligation | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

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