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...given no human side, and their transparecy and one-sidedness can make the jokes just a little too cruel. And yet Handey is able to mine everything for humor—even the prospect of manslaughter. When the narrator talks about his issues with running over hitchhikers, he asks, “Have you ever been driving and hit a strange bump and wondered, What was that? That was a hitchhiker.” Unlike a lot of pop comedians, Handey doesn’t just riff on alcohol and sex, although he can and does. He has a message...
...ROTC was expelled from the Harvard campus in 1969 and the University continues to oppose its presence on campus because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prevents gay and lesbian individuals from serving openly...
Fine said that Harvard should pressure the military to drop the “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy, which he termed discriminatory...
...Grumman pilots have criticized the company for using single-engine planes over such dangerous turf. In March 2003, three Grumman employees died in a single-engine-plane crash during a search for the hostages. (The U.S. now requires that twin-engine aircraft be used there.) But the hostages' families ask why the Bush Administration didn't provide more military backup on the contractors' Colombian missions. "Did they really never think this sort of thing could happen?" asks Gonsalves' mother Jo Rosano, of Bristol, Conn. "They sent civilians into a place they knew the rebels would...
...Most of them, it turns out, are Americans who weren't even born into Hasidic families. (They call themselves bal-chuva- "those who return" to the faith.) Emboldened by drink and by their warmth, I take the opportunity to ask the questions I'd always wanted to ask about Hasidism: What is it like? Why the clothes? I don't quite understand some of the more thoughtful answers about the second coming of Moses and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. But I know Harry Potter, even if I never saw its Jewish significance...