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Street Beats
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama duked it out this week, both announcing that they had raised more than $25 million in 2007's first quarter.
Word on the Street
The first time I saw the ballot for Best of Penn '07, the nominations sent me in a tizzy. That Econ professor earns a nod for "allegedly" bludgeoning his wife to death?
Street Beats
The price of birth control is rising sharply in colleges across the country. Fresh Grocer reports dwindling supply of plastic bags.
Sweeper
Hello friends, acquaintances and people who stalk me on Facebook. It's been a busy week for me, filled with nightly blackouts, and spitting game even Mark Zoller couldn't compete with (besides Texas A&M). Things aren't what they used to be.
Philosophies of the game
Work your day game. It'll be the key to your long term success with ladies. That's what I tell my friends, specifically my boy Rodney.
Street Beats
60 million containers of contaminated pet food were recalled this week after 10 cats and dogs died from eating it.
Word on the Street
In weather like this, it's kind of hard to imagine that across the world, suicide bombers are targeting English-speaking schools in Pakistan and Iraq.
Street Beats
An Orange County fire has led to the evacuation of over 200 hillside homes. In unrelated news, The OC and The Hills have been cancelled.
Sweeper
Ah, spring break - the perfect chance to show off my Pottruck-toned physique while throwing money around like beads at Mardi Gras.
Word on the spring break
What do 13 Penn students, a Hillel Rabbi and staff member, a Fox Leadership grant and a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes have in common?
Dispatches
Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: Roll up to a friend of a friend of a friend's house off of St. Charles Street. Eight of us are pounding beers by his pool when I notice his mother spying on us from a second story window.
Word on the street
A little after midnight last Thursday my mom called to tell me my grandpa had died. And over the past week, I've found it hard to know how to grieve for my grandpa, who we called Pater.
Street Beats
A 46-year-old Floridian businessman was convicted Friday of molesting a young girl sitting next to him on an airplane.
Street Beats
Russian President Vladimir Putin argued last week that the United States is undermining global stability.
Street Sweeper
Stephen Glass is back. My grandmother was in town for Shabbat, but enjoying my newly endowed VIP status, I still managed to sweep on this weekend, suckas. *** It's been a scene of mix-ups and false starts lately.
Word on the Street
Lately, I've been cultivating my inner monologue. It makes it easier to cope. I walk to class with my headphones on, casting a misanthropic eye up and down the Walk.
Word on the Street
As Valentine's Day approaches, I, like all men, agonize over what to get for my special lady friend.
Word on the Street
You have to have plans for Valentine's Day. Everyone has plans. Me, I've got plans, too. Every February, as Valentine's Day draws near, I find myself reminiscing about the men I've known (in the biblical sense, of course), not so much surveying my options for that particular saint's day as giving myself a big high five for my options of yore.
Street Beats
The Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl 29-17, amidst torrential downpour and the stench coming off Rex Grossman's right arm.
