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...stoned yet attractive partygoers. Ah, there’s Britney, complete with strategically tousled hair and her post-comeback “It’s Britney, bitch” stare. Fast forward through a lot of lacy lingerie and variations on aforementioned stare and Britney delivers a pun almost worthy of the “gracias” / “grassy ass” wisecracks we sported during recess in 5th grade: “If You Seek Amy” / “F-U-C-K Me.” Ladies and gentlemen, this is surely...
...theory, graph theory, and number theory. Results were released by the Harvard mathematics department on Monday, and one Harvard participant attributed his victory partly to serendipity. “I’m very happy to help the team,” Boreico said. “I almost forgot to register for the Putnam. Luckily I got an email reminder right before the deadline.” For the second year in a row, Tripathy was named a Putnam fellow—an honor given to the five highest scorers on the exam. He received a prize...
That the “University of Our Lady” should be a site of contention over a woman’s right to legislate control over her own body seems almost too perfect a coincidence. For many of us, the words that the protesters use to describe the university’s decision in their online petition—“outrage,” “scandal,” and “travesty”—would better connote the curtailing of federal funding for safe abortion procedures, the outlawing...
...four ounces of narcotics - about the same as a sentence for second-degree murder. The statutes became known as the Rockefeller Drug Laws - a milestone in America's war on drugs and the subject of one of the most abrasive legal tug-of-wars in the nation. The laws almost immediately led to an increase in drug convictions, but no measurable decrease in overall crime. Meanwhile, critics argued that they criminalized what was primarily a public health problem, incarcerated nonviolent felons who were better off in treatment, caused a jump in recidivism rates, and prevented judges from using discretion...
...hedge funds and other financial-market players will be subject to far greater - and properly coordinated - international scrutiny, as will big banks with activities in several countries. "We'll begin to crack down on cowboys in global markets," said Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The tax-haven issue that almost sank the summit means that those not complying with international standards on exchanging information will be publicly named and shamed. (See a TIME video from outside the G-20 summit...