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...puts it best: “School, to tennis players, really sucks.”While her parents saw her education as a back-up plan, her tennis friends, many of whom never completed high school, were baffled by the decision.“They view college as absurd,” she said. “In the tennis world, if you go to college, you’re considered almost a failure or a total loser. They say to me, ‘What are you doing? You’re not a part of our world...
College Republican activism like this, that channels the absurd and outrageous merely to push the envelope, commits a tremendous disservice to the very cause they attempt to promote...
...compared with the free media rental and extensive conference space to be found at Hilles. I spend hours every week working to fit as many student group events into the rooms in SOCH as possible: Kuumba rehearsals, HCAP conferences, CityStep events, EMT courses, HIDO movie screenings. I find it absurd and frustrating to read in The Crimson that student groups are not interested in using the space when my records of room reservations prove that student organizations are requesting rooms at the SOCH just as frequently as they are asking for bookings in Emerson or Harvard Hall. No one ever...
...tosses chickens about like confetti while impishly spitting out salty one-liners like, “Bird flu gonna get you / Made it in my stable.” Rapid-fire editing and hand-held footage amplify the disorienting effects of the video’s jarring music and absurd images. “Bird Flu” is one messy tumble toward chaos, and M.I.A seems completely at home in the fray. Her demeanor—spastic and aggressive yet nonchalant—is at once totally natural and totally badass. Dancing frantically in bare feet, she giggles about...
Stifling regulations, absurd lawsuits and ambitious prosecutors are pushing companies to raise money overseas, the scolds in pinstripes warn, and unless the rules loosen up, within a decade New York City could slip behind London, Hong Kong or, yes, Dubai as a center of global finance. President George W. Bush chimed in during a Jan. 31 speech, saying that lawsuits and overregulation might drag the markets down...