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...however, deeply worried about the Urkel effect, which holds that voters leaning toward Obama will walk into the voting booth and suddenly think, I cannot take four years of listening to that giant-eared nerd. Because people are starting to realize that Obama is not all that cool. He's earnest like C-3PO, emotionless like Spock, overly practical like Encyclopedia Brown and incredibly skinny like C-3PO, Spock and Encyclopedia Brown...
...seen authorizing the U.S. occupation. So now the U.S. is stuck in a game of chicken with the Iraqi government. "We are telling them they are not going to get a better deal," says the senior American diplomat. "I don't think the situation is ready [for us] to walk out the door and leave the Iraqis on their own. But if that's what the Iraqis want, we have no choice...
...mysteriously appear thanks to tough yet sensitive MIT janitors from Southie, thank you very much. Let’s see what Cornell’s got: “If a virgin crosses the Arts Quad at midnight, the statues of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White will walk off their pedestals, meet in the center of the Quad, and shake hands, congratulating themselves on the chastity of the University.”Bingo. There’s nothing I can appreciate more than some good old fashioned Ivy League sexual repression.Prediction: Cornell 24, Princeton 21 Last week...
Beyond short sales, buyers are also walking away because banks are requiring higher down payments and credit scores. Mortgage rates, too, which have recently been rising, are keeping buyers out of the market. "I had one buyer recently walk away because they had 10% to put down, but the lender wanted a 20% down payment," says Barry Miller of Denver-based Buyer's Only Realty. "She said she would save more and come back in a year...
...materials and make some serious progress on her Bill Gates (initially class of 1977, although subsequent drop-out) inspired design. She is enthusiastically tearing apart the seams of a large men’s oxford shirt when I meet her in front of Boylston Hall. We walk to Micro Center in the hopes that Burruss will find a few Gates-worthy embellishments to add to the halter dress she plans to fashion out of the $10 button-down shirt. With only $14 left to spend, she must be selective in choosing her materials. After some deliberation, she finally settles...