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Although everyone from Johnston Gate abandoned ship at Currier House, a rowdy swarm of 21 jocks piled in to make up for the loss. They wore their hats and visors backwards as they moved loudly toward the back, slapping each other’s butts along the way. They ultimately crammed into the final three rows which only have 13 seats. The sportsmen obnoxiously chanted lyrics from popular music: “Let me ride that donkey,” “Throw yo hands up at me,” and “Get krunked...
...million in emergency aid for Afghanistan, and American President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. would donate up to $320 million in economic assistance. Last week the World Food Program sent more than 700 tons of food by road to Kabul; the group says it will need to ship in 372,000 tons over the course of the winter. But since the middle of September, foreign aid workers have been forced out of the country, and supervising the distribution of food aid is becoming more difficult. The Bush Administration is anxious to soften any military attack on Afghanistan with...
...NAURU Refugee Standoff Australia's strategy of sending asylum seekers to the Pacific island of Nauru suffered a setback when 200 Palestinians and Iraqis refused to disembark from an Australian navy ship. The group left H.M.A.S. Manoora after a 12-day standoff, but not before the U.N. said it would not process any further boatloads bound for Australia and diverted to Nauru...
...days as owner for her starry-eyed idealism for the endeavor to fade. Cairnie had lost the back room of the store to the Harvard Book Store, and torrent of visitors from Harvard had slowed to a trickle. The boards on the floor creaked “like a ship in full sail.” While it was immensely comforting to those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction to newcomers wishing to browse. Some people thought the store should have been closed after Cairnie’s death, while those who had been...
Modest Mouse made big news last year by jumping ship and abandoning their indie roots for major label Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. The result of the trio’s defection was The Moon & Antartica, a much more thoughtful, mellowed down version of the band that one thrashed about doin’ the cockroach. Now Modest Mouse is back with Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, an EP compilation consisting of the four songs from the out-of-print 12” Night on the Sun, along with three new tracks...