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...actions of the Cambridge Police Department regarding the first-years unlucky enough to stumble into a sting operation seems absurd but, more unfortunately, indicates general Harvard policy. This policy seems all too interested in liability and saving face in the public eye, and too easily forgets that those involved, the students, truly suffer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Alcohol Policy Hypocritical on Underage Drinking | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Paladin says Hit Man is being maligned unfairly, because it was written at least partly with tongue in cheek. "I have trouble taking the book seriously," says Thomas Kelley, lawyer for the publishing house. He argues that the book contains many "clearly absurd things," like its advice that hit men be careful not to remove their gloves--and leave fingerprints--if they help themselves to snacks in the victim's refrigerator. And Kelley says the book cover's boast that Feral is a hit man and a "lethal weapon aimed at the enemy of the one who pays him" misstates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER BY THE BOOK | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Dartboard has unmasked yet another ruse of college administrations. Just wait until we try to figure out why Harvard has the absurd schedule that it does. On that note, eat well, sleep well and enjoy the short vacation...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: THERE'S THE RUB | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...loophole derives from an absurd anomaly of federalism: companies may refuse to collect taxes for states where they have no physical presence. In theory the customer pays the tax directly, but in practice almost nobody does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATTENTION, WEB MART SHOPPERS! | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...marvel of makeshift precision and comic redundancy (just imagine a wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will break down or burn out, and the redundancy of individual steps will seem an absurd observation in the context of an elaborate but useless machine...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swiss Artists Fischli and Weiss Juggle Sarcasm, Sincerity at the ICA | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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