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...shaved Cornish's head during a soccer-team initiation. In addition to the two-stroke caning he endured as a consequence, his science teacher made him sit in the hall daily until his hair grew back, which took three weeks. Cornish also "got" the aforementioned "jacks" from a cricket bat when he forgot his gym clothes. "I couldn't sit down for the whole day," he said...
...that were theirs as citizens: the right to vote, to petition, to speak freely. Some rights were not explicitly detailed but have nonetheless come to be expected. Among these "implied" liberties are the right to privacy and the right not to get hit in the ass with a cricket bat when you forget your gym clothes. Some of Harvard's international students, alien to these precepts of democratic society, endured such unseemly punishments during their high school careers. And they would do it again...
...joke about going to a fight and having a hockey game break out came up again, but this time it wasn't so funny. Boston Bruins defenseman Marty McSorley, apparently forgetting he didn't play baseball, raised his stick in the air as if it were a bat and swung at Vancouver Canucks left wing Donald Brashear's head. The egregious (though not entirely unprecedented) whack-heard-round-the-world left Brashear unconscious and twitching on the ice for about 10 minutes, blood streaming from his face. Paramedics had to take Brashear off the ice since he still could...
Admittedly, his first moments have been rocky. Firing coach Gar Heard right off the bat certainly shook things up. Still, Heard's only head coaching experience before that was an interim position with Dallas' Mavericks, who performed a miserable 9-44 under his guidance...
...term to describe people like Samantha L. Watson '02...Freshman Alexander T. Schmidt '03 has been playing his MP3 of "Mambo #5" for sixteen days straight. Roommate Bobby M. Braithwaite '03 has divided their Holworthy double in half using duct tape and guards his side vigilently with a baseball bat...Kelly Rodriguez '02 and Samuel F. Nixon '01 made eye contact during section yesterday. Could it be love? "Nope," confides Professor of Neurobiology Steven S. Cooper. "Samuel has a debilitating neurological disorder...