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...understand the problem. The czar, who told Time he has never smoked pot, believes marijuana to be not only a gateway drug but also incredibly detrimental in its own right--causing driving accidents, domestic violence, health risks and crippling addiction. He thinks the legalization argument is absurd, especially when proposed by libertarian Republicans who are so doctrinaire he finds them to be outside his party. "This is great talk at 2 a.m. in a dorm room, that all laws should be consistent. But the real world isn't consistent. It's ludicrous to say we have a great DEAl...
...Athletes Take a Break,” by Luke Smith ’04, haphazardly quotes a few indiscrete, heated remarks from athletes to present an absurd, monolithic picture of the athlete at Harvard (Op-Ed, Oct. 30). Smith’s own remarks about athletes are far more contemptuous than any remarks he quoted. When men’s heavyweight crew captain Michael J. Skey ’03 observed that athletes won’t stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes...
...against Northeastern, when the threat of being pulled for Fitzpatrick constantly loomed over his head, Rose has been lights out whenever’s he played. His current completion percentage (68.1) surpasses last year’s rate, and, if you exclude the Northeastern game, Rose is completing an absurd 76 percent of his passes. More importantly, he’s only thrown one interception—and that was two months ago in the first game versus Holy Cross...
...course, even if none of this were true, efforts to single out Israel as uniquely evil in the world or to rationalize attacks on Jews as merely emotional reactions to the heated politics of the Middle East are absurd and dangerous...
Jacob A. Rubin ’03 raps as MC Absurd in the Witness Protection Program (WPP), a hip-hop band that has opened for Blackalicious and Jurassic 5. Over the past four years, he has written pieces for FM including “Absurdity in Annenberg,” the story of a day spent in the freshman dining hall. This week Rubin brings his FM reporter’s eye to the story of life as a rapper. WPP recently played two shows in New York City. The first, at Arlene’s Grocery (10/4), broke...