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...else to tell. Alas, fair reader, you know almost nothing about me. Based on my name, you can surmise that I am some manner of minority. Judging by the creepy photo of my eyes that accompanies this column, it would appear that I am some sort of hideous man-beast or perhaps even a gargoyle. But beyond that you know nothing. Did you know that I spent the best summer of my life following Bob Dylan around the country or that I was the first man on the moon? Did you know that I can bench-press 750 pounds? Does...

Author: By Vali D. Chandrasekaran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: {untitled} | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast--composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"--is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup in the fictional African land of Ishmaelia. Much has changed in journalism since Waugh wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gleam Of A Pearl | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast - composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" - is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup in the fictional African land of Ishmaelia. Much has changed in journalism since Waugh wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gleam of a Pearl | 2/26/2002 | See Source »

...string of hits with songs such as Fox on the Run and Blockbuster, of leukemia; in Welwyn Garden City, England. DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical U.S. criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about prison life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast, from suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell; in Alden, New York State. With Mailer's help Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and murder, won parole in 1981. Six weeks later he was back in jail after stabbing a waiter to death. He wrote that prisoners "cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...That’s the nature of the beast when it has to be a manual count of 20,000 ballots,” Drugan said...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City’s Vote Counting Draws Criticism | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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