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...Peeing off the bow of the Spee boat during a Saturday outing, very drunk punch Gerry S. Botwin ‘04 was surprised when his urine was carried on the wind back towards him. “Aah! Why is this happening?” he screamed as he was battered by a hurricane of piss...
...Collateral damage,” Timothy McVeigh calls the victims in Oklahoma City, and the people who want to “cure” evil ooh and aah, as if the Middle American murderer is expressing a horrifyingly original thought. But the story of humanity, from the Mongol hordes sacking Silk Road cities and piling up skulls like gumdrops, to Hutus and Tutsis hacking at each other in the Rwandan bush, has always been one of “collateral damage”—of killing people who happen to get in your...
...spent your days lolling around eating grapes, you're probably beginning to envy the busy, (over-)productive lifestyles of the proletariat (that's us hard-working types). If, however, you work (i.e. study) for a living, you must be fantasizing about how you could pull off that couch/grape thing (aah--spring break!). No matter how diligent a little beaver you are, with the Moon's nodes crossing the Pisces-Virgo axis, you're sure to be plotting moments of escape from drudgery (thank goodness for study breaks and the phone). But in the end, work will turn...
...promise of food and friends, or fervently repeating the all-important mantra, "You know you want to join." Although the eager recruiters realize that the majority of flyers will eventually end up in the trash bin, it doesn't seem to dampen their spirit or enthusiasm one bit. Aah, such is the strength of newly gained faith...
...people were not as famous and charismatic as Jackie, who hovered, Cheshire cat-like, in the public imagination for more than 30 years, her enigmatic smile evanescing into an invisible privacy where admirers were not welcome or allowed. The posthumous chance to enter this forbidden space and ooh and aah over--and maybe buy one of--Jackie's personal possessions figured to be irresistible to plenty of people, and Sotheby's was not disappointed in its expectations. Its fat, glossy catalog of the lots up for auction sold more than 100,000 copies (at $90 hardback, $45 paper). During...