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Four New Thanksgiving Traditions

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Can you feel it? The leaves have turned, Yale has been publicly humiliated, and it is once again inappropriate to solicit candy from your neighbors. That's right: it's Thanksgiving!

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Lucky for you, Flyby's got your back with some new traditions to spice up your holiday.

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Photo Contest: Crowdsourcing Thanksgiving!

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The Flyby Staff extends its most heartfelt wishes for a happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday. We\'ll miss you all over the next few days, and we know you\'ll miss us, too! That\'s why we\'ve come up with a solution: a crowdsourced, online Thanksgiving for all of us to take part in.

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Send us your Thanksgiving snapshots via Instagram by using the hashtag #flybythanksgiving.

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Whooping Cough Hits Campus

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Dean Hammond\'s emails haven\'t exactly gotten brighter since the last one updating us all on Harvard\'s alcohol policy. Her most recent email, sent to the entire student body, announced that there have been several confirmed cases of Pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, among Harvard undergraduate students.

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The Other Harvard-Yale Game

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As the Crimson and the Bulldogs faced off on the football field on Saturday, other Harvardians and Yalies were battling in the boardroom.

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After two days of intensive interviews, six students from Harvard and seven from Yale were named among this year\'s Rhodes Scholars on Saturday afternoon. Together, the 13 scholarship winners from Harvard and Yale made up over one-third of the 32 winners chosen nationwide.', [])

Remembering November 18, 2006

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We all knew that Harvard was going to win on Saturday. We also knew that would happen last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.\xa0In fact, Yale\'s football team is so objectively bad that we at Flyby aren\'t quite sure why we have a game at all if the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Still, without competition on the field, Harvard-Yale weekend is nothing but revelry and schadenfreude, and where\'s the fun in that? Anticipating yet another (inevitable) Crimson victory is the best part of the tradition, so let\'s not cancel next year\'s game just yet.

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But before we get too carried away, let us take a moment to sympathize with our battered Bulldog friends, who must at this very moment be licking their collective wounds. Let us help them begin to memorialize what\xa0generations of Yalies will surely see as a sacred and solemn day for years to come. Let us remember that once upon a time, it was Nov. 18, 2006, a day that would go down in history as The Last Day Yale Won The Game.', [])

Conversation Pieces for Thanksgiving Dinner

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Thanksgiving dinner isn't always the easiest meal.

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Even if Cousin\xa0Cindy forgets to bring her mothball collection and Uncle Earl\xa0remembers not to talk about Barack Obama's birth certificate, there\xa0will be awkward moments.\xa0String beans will burn, glasses will break,\xa0and insults will fly.

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When the dinner table talk needs to be revitalized,\xa0use this Harvard-themed cheat sheet to get the conversation flowing without\xa0having to resort to Aunt Betsy's toilet humor.

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Addis Red Sea Review

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"I\'m too busy" is never a good excuse to skimp on exciting and delicious food escapades. In this new series, explore the culinary scene of Boston and Cambridge with Jane, your Crimson foodie who may be picky, but will still try anything on the plate at least once (except maybe chicken feet).

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You won\'t need any forks or knives when you eat at\xa0Addis Red Sea, an Ethiopian restaurant near Porter Square. Instead of cutlery, Ethipian food calls for a different set of tools: namely, your hands. With the aid of lots and lots of\xa0injera, an\xa0Ethiopian bread that\'s like a spongier version of sourdough, you scoop up different entrees and channel the food directly to your mouth.', [])

Another Special Election for MA?

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Massachusetts may still be hung over from the exhausting U.S. Senate race that concluded last week, but pundits have already shifted attention to the next election, and in the Bay State, it could be sooner than you think.

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With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set to retire early next year, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has emerged as one of President Barack Obama's top picks to become the nation's next top diplomat.\xa0If Kerry is named Secretary of State, or alternatively Secretary of Defense, Massachusetts will have to hold a special election to fill his seat.", [])

House Telephones, New Furniture, and John Harvard Vandalized

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Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.

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November 14, 1902: University Telephone Installment

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Arrangements have been made with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company for installing automatic pay stations in several dormitories and other College buildings. The work has been begun and will be completed in about a week. The following are the buildings which will be connected and the number and approximate locality of each instrument. 21094.\xa0\xa0Walter Hastings Hall Basement, first entry. 21137.\xa0\xa0Gymnasium. 21151.\xa0\xa0Divinity Hall, first floor. 21267.\xa0\xa0Randall Hall. 21271.\xa0\xa0Memorial Hall, auditor\'s office. 21322.\xa0\xa0Conant Hall, vestibule. 21346.\xa0\xa0Perkins Hall, north-east vestibule. 21357.\xa0\xa0Austin Hall, basement. 21362.\xa0\xa0Lawrence Scientific School, wing B, first floor. 21368.\xa0\xa0Phillips Brooks House, basement. 21383.\xa0\xa0Weld Hall, basement, north entry. 21384.\xa0\xa0Harvard Hall, basement. 21453.\xa0\xa0Matthews Hall, basement. 21474.\xa0\xa0Grays Hall, basement, middle entry.

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Goldman to Win The Game, Cornell's Ranking Anxiety, and 'Compliments' All Around

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The quick and dirty about what\'s been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

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Even Jon Stewart has weighed in on what\'s going down this weekend, and it\'s not looking good for the Bulldogs. According to the Yale Daily News\' Cross Campus blog, when asked by a Yale student which team would win The Game, Stewart said: "I\'m pretty sure Goldman Sachs wins that one." That means Harvard, right?', [])

A Spirited Shuttle

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Looks like students aren\'t the only ones getting excited about this weekend\'s football game. This shuttle has the right idea. With the Yale football team at its weakest in years, we\'re optimistic that Harvard will be able to heed the shuttle\'s directive on Saturday.

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