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...Lepore and Paladino they were suspects, Federal Police spokesman Bruno Craesmeyer admitted: "The Federal Police believe that the American pilots are not as responsible as other people. There are more serious causes of the accident." The pilots' lawyer Theo Dias called the decision to charge them "premature, irresponsible and absurd," especially since his clients were told they would be charged before police even questioned them...
...have often wondered if just one of us exists, while the other is just a figment of his imagination," says Vladimir. "Except," adds Oleg, "we never got to sort out which of us is which." That exchange is indicative of how the brothers work on their original and absurd yet realistic and alarming pieces. They are in constant discourse, shuttling ideas, words and images back and forth and jotting them down, whether at a meal, backstage, strolling or waiting for a flight. It was while waiting for a flight at Frankfurt airport, in fact, that they plotted out To Kill...
...amount of time haggard, harried Harvard undergrads have devoted to campaigning, reporting, and generally gossiping about this election—akin to a middle-school class president election on amphetamines—is absurd. Through student publications and blogs such as Cambridge Common and Team Zebra, this year’s election has received more press coverage than the Lewinsky scandal...
...after the discovery of the trophy oars, my father, my sister Connie and I all went to the Harvard and Yale library archives and learned of their great historical significance,” Marino writes in an e-mail. As the Times reported, most sources consider the asking price absurd. Marino, however, is optimistic about finding a buyer. “There is no doubt in my mind that these historic trophies will be sold,” Marino writes. “The 1852 Harvard Yale race will always be known as the first and greatest intercollegiate sporting event...
...silly," Stipek told her daughter. "Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google." Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke. Still, few would argue that an American child shouldn't learn the causes of the Civil War or understand how the periodic table reflects the atomic structure and properties of the elements...