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After a brief pause, the section leader always chimes in, desperately searching for a shred of intellectual value to pull from that worthless scrap heap...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Cornell Column Misses Mark | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...major decision, learning brief histories of each city, as well as brief overviews of its lodging, tourism, and restaurant options. In the back, stacks and stacks of maps. One contained all 48 contiguous states. Every time they arrived in a new state, whoever sat in the passenger seat would pull out this map and then check the state off in light pencil; when I joined them in New Orleans, 26 of the states had been checked...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

Just to get onto Beale Street, which is closed to cars in the evening hours, we had to pull out our IDs and prove our age. Inside the gate, brightly dressed revelers tripped down the clean streets. Mosquitoes were everywhere, as were, we realized, bachelorette parties: flocks of heavily made-up women trying hard to get another woman, identical to them except for her painfully nervous manners and lace veil, as intoxicated as possible...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...Although, like Michael Clarke, I've got Shagger's back. Seeing the ball really well, like the day I smacked 130 for Hurlstone Agricultural in 1978. Brett Lee's quick, even off a short run. After nagging away outside my off stump, Bing dropped one short. I went to pull it, the ball skidded on and hit me in the gooly. I was wearing a titanium protector, for extra confidence. Quality box. My left-arm pace was rusty, too much swing, couldn't pitch them on the stumps. Warney, 700 wickets (and counting!), gave me a nickname. "Extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sledge Master | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

...plans a November concert, what most students don’t understand is that in the past the HCC has managed to pull off successful shows despite the fact that the deck has been stacked against...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working in Concert | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

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