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After an interlude during which Five O' Clock Shadow entertained the audience, the six competing groups convened on stage for the awards announcements. Upon hearing of their third-place finish, the Callbacks grinned and hugged one another...
...weather is smiling upon Harvard University and the Undergraduate Council right now, and all is right in Cambridge," mused former council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00 as she danced to the music of Mieka Pauley '01, whose band warmed up the crowd for Voodoo Daddy...
John McCain spent the past year trying to show the differences between him and Bush. So now when it behooves him, he casts those marked differences aside? This certainly doesn't sound like the white knight of the government corruption fight. But upon further review it seems consistent with the John McCain that exists beneath the veil of heroism with which the media adorned...
...primarily social. Even discussing business in the morning room used to bring a waiter with a silver platter and a small card asking the offender to refrain. “Even now,” says Minturn, “flagrant displays of briefcases and papers, are frowned upon.” Cell phones are a cardinal sin. At the Algonquin, on the other hand, there are no such qualms. “It is a business club,” scoffs one member of the Tavern. The St. Botolph and Tavern Clubs are considered “artsy...
...theoretical “worst shower experience” may lend a clue to what this surveyor looks for in bodily cleansing. He describes: “Upon opening the bathroom door, a horrid, wretched smell jumps out of the bathroom which is filled with clothes, lichen, algae, bacteria—and there would be toothpaste on the sinks. Upon turning [the shower] on, I would notice that the water would slowly drip out of one of the spigots and there would be an inconsistent spray that barely misted my body. The soap would be impossible to remove, the curtain...